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Red Hat: RHSA-2017:3221-01 Moderate: PHP Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
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Red Hat unveiled a significant security patch for php, targeting vulnerabilities that could lead to service interruptions and enhancing overall robustness.
An update for php is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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):
* A null pointer dereference flaw was found in libgd. An attacker could use a specially-crafted .gd2 file to cause an application linked with libgd to crash, leading to denial of service. (CVE-2016-10167)
* An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way libgd read some specially-crafted gd2 files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application compiled with libgd or in certain cases execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application. (CVE-2016-10168)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat security fix application security moderate severity php update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10167 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10168 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: php-5.4.16-43.el7_4.src.rpm
x86_64: php-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-bcmath-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-cli-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-common-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-dba-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-debuginfo-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-devel-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-embedded-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-enchant-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-fpm-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-gd-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-intl-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-ldap-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-mbstring-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-mysql-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-mysqlnd-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-odbc-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-pdo-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-pgsql-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-process-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-pspell-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-recode-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-snmp-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-soap-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-xml-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: php-5.4.16-43.el7_4.src.rpm
x86_64: php-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-bcmath-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-cli-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm php-common-5.4.16-43.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:3221-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3221
Issue date: 2017-11-15

Topic

An update for php is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat security fix application security moderate severity php update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le

Bugs Fixed

1418984 - CVE-2016-10167 gd: DoS vulnerability in gdImageCreateFromGd2Ctx()

1418986 - CVE-2016-10168 gd: Integer overflow in gd_io.c

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