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PHP Security Update – 1/31/2012

January 31, 2012 12:31 pm / Albertech.net

There is an important Debian update for PHP today to fix a number of vulnerabilities such as regression and buffer overflows. The crypt_blowfish function also had a bug that did not properly handle 8-bit characters, which could lead to passwords being cracked easier. This is one of the larger security fixes for PHP in the past year, so you should update your PHP package immediately.

Package        : php5

Vulnerability  : several

Problem type   : remote

Debian-specific: no

CVE ID         : CVE-2011-1938 CVE-2011-2483 CVE-2011-4566 CVE-2011-4885

CVE-2012-0057

 

A regression was found in the fix for PHP’s XSLT transformations (CVE-2012-0057). Updated packages are now available to address this regression. For reference, the original advisory text follows.

 

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the web scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

 

CVE-2011-1938

 

The UNIX socket handling allowed attackers to trigger a buffer overflow

via a long path name.

 

CVE-2011-2483

 

The crypt_blowfish function did not properly handle 8-bit characters,

which made it easier for attackers to determine a cleartext password

by using knowledge of a password hash.

 

CVE-2011-4566

 

When used on 32 bit platforms, the exif extension could be used to

trigger an integer overflow in the exif_process_IFD_TAG function

when processing a JPEG file.

 

CVE-2011-4885

 

It was possible to trigger hash collisions predictably when parsing

form parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of

service by sending many crafted parameters.

 

CVE-2012-0057

 

When applying a crafted XSLT transform, an attacker could write files

to arbitrary places in the filesystem.

 

NOTE: the fix for CVE-2011-2483 required changing the behaviour of this

function: it is now incompatible with some old (wrongly) generated hashes for passwords containing 8-bit characters. See the package NEWS entry for details. This change has not been applied to the Lenny version of PHP.

 

NOTE: at the time of release packages for some architectures are still being built. They will be installed into the archive as soon as they arrive.

 

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny15.

 

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze6.

 

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.9-1.

 

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

 

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

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