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Debian: DSA-3008-1 Critical: PHP5 Denial Of Service Threats

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2014
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Debian has issued warnings regarding vulnerabilities in php5, calling for immediate action to address serious security threats detected in the application.
Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development

Summary

CVE-2014-3538

It was discovered that the original fix for CVE-2013-7345 did not
sufficiently address the problem. A remote attacker could still
cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a specially-crafted
input file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk
regular expression rule.

CVE-2014-3587

It was discovered that the CDF parser of the fileinfo module does
not properly process malformed files in the Composite Document File
(CDF) format, leading to crashes.

CVE-2014-3597

It was discovered that the original fix for CVE-2014-4049 did not
completely address the issue. A malicious server or
man-in-the-middle attacker could cause a denial of service (crash)
and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS TXT record.

CVE-2014-4670

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain SPL
Iterators. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause PHP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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Package: php5
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3538 CVE-2014-3587 CVE-2014-3597 CVE-2014-4670

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