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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2816-1 php5 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

12 Dec 2013

Affected Packages:

php5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 731112, Bug 731895.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-6420, CVE-2013-6712.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

• CVE-2013-6420

  Stefan Esser reported possible memory corruption in openssl_x509_parse().

• CVE-2013-6712

  Creating DateInterval objects from parsed ISO dates was not properly restricted, which allowed to cause a denial of service.

In addition, the update for Debian 7 Wheezy contains several bugfixes originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze18.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.4-14+deb7u7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.6+dfsg-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.