Issued:
2013-07-15
Updated:
2013-07-15

RHSA-2013:1063 - Critical: php security update

Synopsis

Critical: php security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

Updated php packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 Extended Life Cycle Support.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

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

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed deeply nested XML documents. If a PHP application used the xml_parse_into_struct() function to parse untrusted XML content, an attacker able to supply specially-crafted XML could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the PHP interpreter. (CVE-2013-4113)

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.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support3i386

Updated Packages

  • php-pear-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-devel-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-domxml-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-mysql-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-4.3.9-3.37.el4.src.rpm
  • php-imap-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-imap-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-gd-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-snmp-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-ldap-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-pear-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-gd-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-pear-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-mysql-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-domxml-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-snmp-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-domxml-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-gd-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-odbc-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-ldap-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-mysql-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-snmp-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-odbc-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-devel-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-4.3.9-3.37.el4.ia64.rpm
  • php-devel-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.37.el4.i386.rpm
  • php-odbc-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-ldap-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm
  • php-imap-4.3.9-3.37.el4.x86_64.rpm

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