Security Information / 2011 / Security Information -- DSA-2266-1 php5

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2266-1 php5 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2011

Affected Packages:

php5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-2531, CVE-2011-0420, CVE-2011-0421, CVE-2011-0708, CVE-2011-1153, CVE-2011-1466, CVE-2011-1471, CVE-2011-2202.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, which could lead to denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2010-2531

  An information leak was found in the var_export() function.

• CVE-2011-0421

  The Zip module could crash.

• CVE-2011-0708

  An integer overflow was discovered in the Exif module.

• CVE-2011-1466

  An integer overflow was discovered in the Calendar module.

• CVE-2011-1471

  The Zip module was prone to denial of service through malformed archives.

• CVE-2011-2202

  Path names in form based file uploads (RFC 1867) were incorrectly validated.

This update also fixes two bugs, which are not treated as security issues, but fixed nonetheless, see README.Debian.security for details on the scope of security support for PHP (CVE-2011-0420, CVE-2011-1153).

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny12.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.6-12.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.