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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2016-1609-01 Moderate: PHP Remote Threat

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A security patch has been released for PHP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, classified as moderate severity, targeting significant vulnerabilities.
An update for php is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Summary

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.
Security Fix(es):
* It was discovered that PHP did not properly protect against the HTTP_PROXY variable name clash. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a PHP script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request. (CVE-2016-5385)
Red Hat would like to thank Scott Geary (VendHQ) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat remote code execution moderate severity PHP HTTP_PROXY vulnerability

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5385 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source: php-5.3.3-48.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: php-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-bcmath-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-cli-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-dba-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-debuginfo-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-devel-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-embedded-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-enchant-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-fpm-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-gd-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-imap-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-intl-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-ldap-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-mbstring-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-mysql-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-odbc-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-pdo-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-pgsql-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-process-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-pspell-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-recode-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-snmp-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-soap-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-tidy-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-xml-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm php-zts-5.3.3-48.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: php-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64.rpm php-bcmath-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64.rpm php-cli-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64.rpm php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64.rpm php-dba-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64.rpm php-debuginfo-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1609-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1609.html
Issue date: 2016-08-11

Topic

An update for php is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat remote code execution moderate severity PHP HTTP_PROXY vulnerability

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

1353794 - CVE-2016-5385 PHP: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header

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