Detections
Analytics
PHP 5.x < 5.2.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities
high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4943
Synopsis
The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by multiple flaws.Description
According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.x installed on the remote host is older than 5.2.9. Such versions may be affected by several security issues :- Background color is not correctly validated with a non-true color image in function 'imagerotate()'. (CVE-2008-5498)
- A denial of service condition can be triggered by trying to extract zip files that contain files with relative paths in file or directory names.
- Function 'explode()' is affected by an unspecified vulnerability.
- It may be possible to trigger a segfault by passing a specially crafted string to function 'json_decode()'.
- Function 'xml_error_string()' is affected by a flaw that results in messages being off by one." );
Solution
Upgrade to version 5.2.9 or higher.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 4943
Family: Web Servers
Published: 3/2/2009
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 35750
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.3
Temporal Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:php:php
Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2009
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2009