Red Hat Security Advisory: php security update Security Advisory secalert@redhat.com Red Hat Security Response Team RHSA-2012:1045 Final 1 1 2012-06-27T15:36:00Z Current version 2012-06-27T15:36:00Z 2012-06-27T15:36:00Z Red Hat rhsa-to-cvrf 1.0.1484 2012-06-27T15:54:21Z Updated php packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the PHP XSL extension did not restrict the file writing capability of libxslt. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create or overwrite an arbitrary file that is writable by the user running PHP, if a PHP script processed untrusted eXtensible Style Sheet Language Transformations (XSLT) content. (CVE-2012-0057) Note: This update disables file writing by default. A new PHP configuration directive, "xsl.security_prefs", can be used to enable file writing in XSLT. A flaw was found in the way PHP validated file names in file upload requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass the sanitization of the uploaded file names, and cause a PHP script to store the uploaded file in an unexpected directory, by using a directory traversal attack. (CVE-2012-1172) It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-1823, released via RHSA-2012:0546, did not properly filter all php-cgi command line arguments. A specially-crafted request to a PHP script could cause the PHP interpreter to output usage information that triggers an Internal Server Error. (CVE-2012-2336) A memory leak flaw was found in the PHP strtotime() function call. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause excessive memory consumption by triggering many strtotime() function calls. (CVE-2012-0789) It was found that PHP did not check the zend_strndup() function's return value in certain cases. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash a PHP application. (CVE-2011-4153) All php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect. Please see https://www.redhat.com/footer/terms-of-use.html Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Moderate https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0546.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0546.html Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) php-5.1.6-39.el5_8.src.rpm php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 as a component of RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) It was found that PHP did not check the zend_strndup() function's return value in certain cases. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash a PHP application. 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z CVE-2011-4153 5Client-Workstation-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 5Server-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 Low 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2011-4153.html CVE-2011-4153 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782943 bz#782943: CVE-2011-4153 php: zend_strndup() NULL pointer dereference may cause DoS It was discovered that the PHP XSL extension did not restrict the file writing capability of libxslt. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create or overwrite an arbitrary file that is writable by the user running PHP, if a PHP script processed untrusted eXtensible Style Sheet Language Transformations (XSLT) content. 2012-01-11T00:00:00Z 2012-01-11T00:00:00Z CVE-2012-0057 5Client-Workstation-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 5Server-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 Moderate 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-0057.html CVE-2012-0057 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782657 bz#782657: CVE-2012-0057 php: XSLT file writing vulnerability A memory leak flaw was found in the PHP strtotime() function call. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause excessive memory consumption by triggering many strtotime() function calls. 2012-01-11T00:00:00Z 2012-01-11T00:00:00Z CVE-2012-0789 5Client-Workstation-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 5Server-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 Low 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-0789.html CVE-2012-0789 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609 bz#783609: CVE-2012-0789 php: strtotime timezone memory leak A flaw was found in the way PHP validated file names in file upload requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass the sanitization of the uploaded file names, and cause a PHP script to store the uploaded file in an unexpected directory, by using a directory traversal attack. 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z CVE-2012-1172 5Client-Workstation-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 5Server-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 Moderate 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-1172.html CVE-2012-1172 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799187 bz#799187: CVE-2012-1172 php: $_FILES array indexes corruption It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-1823, released via RHSA-2012:0546, did not properly filter all php-cgi command line arguments. A specially-crafted request to a PHP script could cause the PHP interpreter to output usage information that triggers an Internal Server Error. 2012-05-07T00:00:00Z 2012-05-03T00:00:00Z CVE-2012-2336 5Client-Workstation-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 5Server-5.8.Z:php-5.1.6-39.el5_8 Moderate 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1045.html https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-2336.html CVE-2012-2336 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820708 bz#820708: CVE-2012-2336 php: incomplete CVE-2012-1823 fix - missing filtering of -T and -h