DSA-2408-1 php5 -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2408-1 php5 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

13 Feb 2012

Affected Packages:

php5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-1072, CVE-2011-4153, CVE-2012-0781, CVE-2012-0788, CVE-2012-0831, CVE-2010-4697, CVE-2011-1092, CVE-2011-1148, CVE-2011-1464, CVE-2011-1467, CVE-2011-1468, CVE-2011-1469, CVE-2011-1470, CVE-2011-1657, CVE-2011-3182, CVE-2011-3267.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the web scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

• CVE-2011-1072

  It was discovered that insecure handling of temporary files in the PEAR installer could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2011-4153

  Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the zend_strndup() function could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2012-0781

  Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the tidy_diagnose() function could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2012-0788

  It was discovered that missing checks in the handling of PDORow objects could lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2012-0831

  It was discovered that the magic_quotes_gpc setting could be disabled remotely.

This update also addresses PHP bugs, which are not treated as security issues in Debian (see README.Debian.security), but which were fixed nonetheless: CVE-2010-4697, CVE-2011-1092, CVE-2011-1148, CVE-2011-1464, CVE-2011-1467 CVE-2011-1468, CVE-2011-1469, CVE-2011-1470, CVE-2011-1657, CVE-2011-3182 CVE-2011-3267

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.10-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.