Scientific Linux: Critical PHP Update For Remote Code Execution Risk

Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 09:51:47 -0500
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Patrick Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: php on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Critical: php security update
Issue Date: 2012-05-07
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-1823

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache
HTTP Server.

A flaw was found in the way the php-cgi executable processed command line
arguments when running in CGI mode. A remote attacker could send a
specially-crafted request to a PHP script that would result in the query
string being parsed by php-cgi as command line options and arguments. This
could lead to the disclosure of the script's source code or arbitrary code
execution with the privileges of the PHP interpreter. (CVE-2012-1823)

Scientific Linux is aware that a public exploit for this issue is available
that allows remote code execution in affected PHP CGI configurations. This
flaw does not affect the default configuration in Scientific Linux 5 and
6 using the PHP module for Apache httpd to handle PHP scripts.

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.

SL5:
 i386
 php-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-bcmath-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-cli-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-common-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-dba-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-debuginfo-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-devel-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-gd-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-imap-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-ldap-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-mbstring-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-mysql-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-ncurses-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-odbc-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-pdo-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-pgsql-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-snmp-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-soap-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-xml-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 php-xmlrpc-5.1.6-34.el5_8.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 php-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-bcmath-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-cli-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-common-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-dba-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-debuginfo-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-devel-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-gd-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-imap-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-ldap-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-mbstring-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-mysql-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-ncurses-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-odbc-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-pdo-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-pgsql-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-snmp-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-soap-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-xml-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
 php-xmlrpc-5.1.6-34.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
SL6:
 i386
 php-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-bcmath-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-cli-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-common-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-dba-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-debuginfo-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-devel-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-embedded-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-enchant-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-gd-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-imap-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-intl-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-ldap-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-mbstring-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-mysql-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-odbc-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-pdo-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-pgsql-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-process-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-pspell-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-recode-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-snmp-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-soap-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-tidy-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-xml-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-xmlrpc-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 php-zts-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 php-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-bcmath-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-cli-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-common-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-dba-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-debuginfo-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-devel-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-embedded-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-enchant-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-gd-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-imap-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-intl-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-ldap-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-mbstring-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-mysql-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-odbc-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-pdo-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-pgsql-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-process-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-pspell-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-recode-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-snmp-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-soap-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-tidy-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-xml-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-xmlrpc-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm
 php-zts-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team