DSA-4081-1 php5 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4081-1 php5 -- security update

Date Reported:

08 Jan 2018

Affected Packages:

php5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-11142, CVE-2017-11143, CVE-2017-11144, CVE-2017-11145, CVE-2017-11628, CVE-2017-12933, CVE-2017-16642.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a widely-used open source general purpose scripting language:

• CVE-2017-11142

  Denial of service via overly long form variables

• CVE-2017-11143

  Invalid free() in wddx_deserialize()

• CVE-2017-11144

  Denial of service in openssl extension due to incorrect return value check of OpenSSL sealing function.

• CVE-2017-11145

  Out-of-bounds read in wddx_deserialize()

• CVE-2017-11628

  Buffer overflow in PHP INI parsing API

• CVE-2017-12933

  Buffer overread in finish_nested_data()

• CVE-2017-16642

  Out-of-bounds read in timelib_meridian()

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.6.33+dfsg-0+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

For the detailed security status of php5 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/php5