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SUSE: 2016:1280-1 Critical: php5 Security Flaws Discovered

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2016
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE php5 security patch addresses 5 vulnerabilities rated as critical. Update advised for affected installations immediately.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for php5 fixes the following security 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-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

References

#976996 #976997 #977000 #977003 #977005

Cross- CVE-2015-8866 CVE-2015-8867 CVE-2016-4070

CVE-2016-4071 CVE-2016-4073

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12

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-2016-4070.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/976996

https://bugzilla.suse.com/976997

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977005

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1277-1
Rating: important

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