Debian LTS: Security Advisory for php5 (DLA-2261-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 'php5' package(s) announced via the DLA-2261-1 advisory.

It has been discovered, that a vulnerability in php5, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language, could lead to exhausted disk space on the server. When using overly long filenames or field names, a memory limit could be hit which results in stopping the upload but not cleaning up behind. Further the embedded version of 'file' is vulnerable to CVE-2019-18218. As it can not be exploited the same in php5 as in file, this issue is not handled as an own CVE but just as a bug, that has been fixed here (restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements to prevent a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write)).

'php5' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.40+dfsg-0+deb8u12. We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.