Important: php:8.0 security update

Topic

An update for the php:8.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: XML loading external entity without being enabled (CVE-2023-3823)
• php: phar Buffer mismanagement (CVE-2023-3824)
• php: 1-byte array overrun in common path resolve code (CVE-2023-0568)
• php: DoS vulnerability when parsing multipart request body (CVE-2023-0662)
• php: Missing error check and insufficient random bytes in HTTP Digest authentication for SOAP (CVE-2023-3247)
• php: Password_verify() always return true with some hash (CVE-2023-0567)

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.

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2170761 - CVE-2023-0662 php: DoS vulnerability when parsing multipart request body
• BZ - 2170770 - CVE-2023-0568 php: 1-byte array overrun in common path resolve code
• BZ - 2170771 - CVE-2023-0567 php: Password_verify() always return true with some hash
• BZ - 2219290 - CVE-2023-3247 php: Missing error check and insufficient random bytes in HTTP Digest authentication for SOAP
• BZ - 2229396 - CVE-2023-3823 php: XML loading external entity without being enabled
• BZ - 2230101 - CVE-2023-3824 php: phar Buffer mismanagement

CVEs

• CVE-2023-0567
• CVE-2023-0568
• CVE-2023-0662
• CVE-2023-3247
• CVE-2023-3823
• CVE-2023-3824

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important