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USN-3095-1 PHP vulnerabilities

USN-3095-1 PHP vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

PHP

Versions Affected

  • Cloud Foundry PHP buildpack versions prior to 4.3.21
  • Note: The PHP buildpack is patched from upstream PHP source

Description

Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain invalid objects when unserializing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7124)

Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled invalid session names. A remote attacker could use this issue to inject arbitrary session data. (CVE-2016-7125)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain gamma values in the imagegammacorrect function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7127)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain crafted TIFF image thumbnails. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-7128)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing certain wddxPacket XML documents. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7129, CVE-2016-7130, CVE-2016-7131, CVE-2016-7132, CVE-2016-7413)

Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain failures when unserializing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7411)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain flags in the MySQL driver. Malicious remote MySQL servers could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7412)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled ZIP file signature verification when processing a PHAR archive. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7414)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain locale operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7416)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled SplArray unserializing. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7417)

Ke Liu discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing wddxPacket XML documents with incorrect boolean elements. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-7418)

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • Upgrade the PHP Buildpack to v4.3.21 or later [2] and restage all applications that use automated buildpack detection.

Credit

Taoguang Chen, Ke Liu, et. al.

References

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