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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2013-1049-01 Critical PHP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2013
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Updated php packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Summary

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed deeply nested XML documents. If a PHP application used the xml_parse_into_struct() function to parse untrusted XML content, an attacker able to supply specially-crafted XML could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the PHP interpreter. (CVE-2013-4113)
All php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4113 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: php-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-bcmath-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-cli-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-common-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-dba-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-debuginfo-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-devel-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-gd-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-imap-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-ldap-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-mbstring-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-mysql-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-ncurses-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-odbc-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-pdo-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-pgsql-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-snmp-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-soap-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-xml-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.1.6-40.el5_9.i386.rpm
x86_64: php-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-bcmath-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-cli-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-common-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-dba-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-debuginfo-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-devel-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-gd-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-imap-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-ldap-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-mbstring-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-mysql-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-ncurses-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-odbc-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm php-pdo-5.1.6-40.el5_9.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1049-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1049.html
Issue date: 2013-07-12

Topic

Updated php packages that fix one security issue are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link inthe References section.

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security advisory update buffer overflow critical php Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

983689 - CVE-2013-4113 php: xml_parse_into_struct buffer overflow when parsing deeply nested XML

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