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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2816-1 (php5 - several vulnerabilities)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2013-6420 Stefan Esser reported possible memory corruption in openssl_x509_parse(). CVE-2013-6712 Creating DateInterval objects from parsed ISO dates was not properly restricted, which allowed to cause a denial of service. In addition, the update for Debian 7 Wheezy contains several bugfixes originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.
Affected Software
Affected Software
php5 on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze18. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.4-14+deb7u7. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.6+dfsg-2. We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.