SUSE SLES11 Security Update : PHP5 (SUSE-SU-2014:0868-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83630

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

PHP5 has been updated to fix two security vulnerabilities :

- Heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing (CVE-2014-4049)

- NULL pointer dereference in GD XPM decoder (CVE-2014-2497)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-apache2-mod_php5-9409

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc8643d8

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2497.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4049.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/868624

https://bugzilla.novell.com/882992

http://www.nessus.org/u?d6bd146b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83630

File Name: suse_SU-2014-0868-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pear, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-hash, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-shmop, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pspell, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dbase, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-suhosin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2497, CVE-2014-4049

BID: 66233, 68007