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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3588-1 symfony -- security update

Date Reported:

29 May 2016

Affected Packages:

symfony

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1902, CVE-2016-4423.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework.

• CVE-2016-1902

  Lander Brandt discovered that the class SecureRandom might generate weak random numbers for cryptographic use under certain settings. If the functions random_bytes() or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() are not available, the output of SecureRandom should not be consider secure.

• CVE-2016-4423

  Marek Alaksa from Citadelo discovered that it is possible to fill up the session storage space by submitting inexistent large usernames.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.6+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.6+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your symfony packages.