Moderate: php security update

Synopsis

Moderate: php security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for php is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

Security Fix(es):

  • php: Reflected XSS on PHAR 404 page (CVE-2018-5712)
  • php: Stack-based buffer under-read in php_stream_url_wrap_http_ex() in http_fopen_wrapper.c when parsing HTTP response (CVE-2018-7584)
  • php: Reflected XSS vulnerability on PHAR 403 and 404 error pages (CVE-2018-10547)
  • php: Out-of-bounds read in base64_decode_xmlrpc in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/base64.c (CVE-2019-9024)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1535251 - CVE-2018-5712 php: Reflected XSS on PHAR 404 page
  • BZ - 1551039 - CVE-2018-7584 php: Stack-based buffer under-read in php_stream_url_wrap_http_ex() in http_fopen_wrapper.c when parsing HTTP response
  • BZ - 1573814 - CVE-2018-10547 php: Reflected XSS vulnerability on PHAR 403 and 404 error pages
  • BZ - 1685404 - CVE-2019-9024 php: Out-of-bounds read in base64_decode_xmlrpc in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/base64.c

CVEs

References