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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3380-1 (php5 - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Two vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development. CVE-2015-7803 The phar extension could crash with a NULL pointer dereference when processing tar archives containing links referring to non-existing files. This could lead to a denial of service. CVE-2015-7804 The phar extension does not correctly process directory entries found in archive files with the name '/', leading to a denial of service and, potentially, information disclosure. The update for Debian stable (jessie) contains additional bug fixes from PHP upstream version 5.6.14. Note to users of the oldstable distribution (wheezy): PHP 5.4 has reached end-of-life on September 14th, 2015. As a result, there will be no more new upstream releases. The security support of PHP 5.4 in Debian oldstable (wheezy) will be best effort only, and you are strongly advised to upgrade to latest Debian stable release (jessie), which includes PHP 5.6.
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 (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.45-0+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.6.14+dfsg-0+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.6.14+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.