SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php5 (SUSE-SU-2015:1701-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86340

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Synopsis

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

Description

The PHP5 script interpreter was updated to fix security issues :

- CVE-2015-6836: A SOAP serialize_function_call() type confusion leading to remote code execution problem was fixed. [bnc#945428]

- CVE-2015-6837 CVE-2015-6838: Two NULL pointer dereferences in the XSLTProcessor class were fixed.
[bnc#945412]

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-php5-12121=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-php5-12121=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86340

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1701-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/12/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

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: 9/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6836, CVE-2015-6837, CVE-2015-6838

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