Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2974-1 php5 -- security update

Date Reported:
08 Jul 2014
Affected Packages:
php5
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3515, CVE-2014-4721.
More information:

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 problems:

  • CVE-2014-0207

    Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team reported an incorrect boundary check in the cdf_read_short_sector() function.

  • CVE-2014-3478

    Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered a flaw in the way the truncated pascal string size in the mconvert() function is computed.

  • CVE-2014-3479

    Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team reported an incorrect boundary check in the cdf_check_stream_offset() function.

  • CVE-2014-3480

    Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team reported an insufficient boundary check in the cdf_count_chain() function.

  • CVE-2014-3487

    Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered an incorrect boundary check in the cdf_read_property_info() funtion.

  • CVE-2014-3515

    Stefan Esser discovered that the ArrayObject and the SPLObjectStorage unserialize() handler do not verify the type of unserialized data before using it. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2014-4721

    Stefan Esser discovered a type confusion issue affecting phpinfo(), which might allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from process memory.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.4-14+deb7u12. In addition, this update contains several bugfixes originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.6.0~rc2+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.6.0~rc2+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.