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openSUSE 13.2: SUSE-SU-2016:1274-1 Important: PHP5 Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2016
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An important PHP5 upgrade for openSUSE resolves 6 significant problems, including risks of remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for php5 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-4073: A remote attacker could have caused denial of service, or

possibly execute arbitrary code, due to incorrect handling of string

length calculations in mb_strcut() (bsc#977003)

- CVE-2016-3074: Signedness vulnerability in bundled libgd may have

resulted in a heap overflow when processing compressed gd2 data.

(boo#976775)

- CVE-2015-8867: The PHP function openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() did not

return cryptographically secure random bytes (bsc#977005)

- CVE-2016-4070: The libxml_disable_entity_loader() setting was shared

between threads, which could have resulted in XML external entity

injection and entity expansion issues (bsc#976997)

- CVE-2015-8866: A remote attacker could have caused denial of service due

to incorrect handling of large strings in php_raw_url_encode()

(bsc#976996)

- CVE-2016-4071: A remote attacker could have caused denial of service, or

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software patch remote execution important update openSUSE php5 issue

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-576=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

apache2-mod_php5-5.6.1-57.1

apache2-mod_php5-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-5.6.1-57.1

php5-bcmath-5.6.1-57.1

php5-bcmath-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-bz2-5.6.1-57.1

php5-bz2-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-calendar-5.6.1-57.1

php5-calendar-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-ctype-5.6.1-57.1

php5-ctype-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-curl-5.6.1-57.1

php5-curl-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-dba-5.6.1-57.1

php5-dba-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-debugsource-5.6.1-57.1

php5-devel-5.6.1-57.1

php5-dom-5.6.1-57.1

php5-dom-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-enchant-5.6.1-57.1

php5-enchant-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-exif-5.6.1-57.1

php5-exif-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-fastcgi-5.6.1-57.1

php5-fastcgi-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-fileinfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-fileinfo-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-firebird-5.6.1-57.1

php5-firebird-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-fpm-5.6.1-57.1

php5-fpm-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-ftp-5.6.1-57.1

php5-ftp-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-gd-5.6.1-57.1

php5-gd-debuginfo-5.6.1-57.1

php5-gettext-5.6.1-57.1

php5-gettext-debu...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8866.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8867.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3074.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4070.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4071.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4073.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976775

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976996

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976997

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977005

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1274-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 .

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Topics Covered

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