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Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks --> Category: infos
USN171-1 : php4 vulnerabilities Vulnerability Scan
Vulnerability Scan Summary
php4 vulnerabilities
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test
Synopsis :
These remote packages are missing security patches :
- libapache-mod-php4
- libapache2-mod-php4
- php4
- php4-cgi
- php4-cli
- php4-common
- php4-curl
- php4-dev
- php4-domxml
- php4-gd
- php4-imap
- php4-ldap
- php4-mcal
- php4-mhash
- php4-mysql
- php4-odbc
- php4-pear
- php4-recode
- php4-snmp
- php4-sybase
- php4-universe-common
- php4-xslt
Description :
CVE-2005-1751:
The php4-dev package ships a copy of the "shtool" utility in
/usr/lib/php4/build/, which provides useful functionality for
developers of software packages. Eric Romang discovered that shtool
created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow
a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
rights of the user invoking the shtool program.
CVE-1005-1759:
The creation of temporary files in shtool was also vulnerable to a
race condition which allowed a local user to read the contents of the
temporary file. However, this file does not usually contain sensitive
information since shtool is usually used for building software
packages.
CVE-2005-2498:
Stefan Esser discovered another remote code execution vulnerability in
the XMLRPC module of the PEAR (PHP Extension and Application
Repository) extension of PHP. By sending specially crafted XMLRPC
requests to an affected web server, a remote attacker could exploit
this to execute arbitr
[...]
Solution :
Upgrade to :
- libapache-mod-php4-4.3.10-10ubuntu3.4 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- libapache2-mod-php4-4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-cgi-4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-cli-4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-common-4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-curl-4.3.10-10ubuntu3.4 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-dev-4.3.10-10ubuntu4.1 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-domxml-4.3.10-10ubuntu3.4 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-gd-4.3.10-10ubuntu3.4 (Ubuntu 5.04)
- php4-imap-4.3.10-10ubuntu3.4 (Ub
[...]
Threat Level: High
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