MGASA-2014-0178

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    MGASA-2014-0178

    Published: 17 Apr 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-7345

    Summary: Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Updated php packages fix security vulnerability: The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters (CVE-2013-7345). PHP contains a bundled copy of the file utility's libmagic library, so it was vulnerable to this issue. It has been updated to versions 5.4.27 and 5.5.11, which fix this issue and several other bugs. Also, the timezonedb PHP PECL module has been updated to its newest version. Additionally, php-apc has been rebuilt against the updated php packages.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0178.html, http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.27, http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.11, http://pecl.php.net/package-info.php?package=timezonedb&version=2014.2, http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0142.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13142

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: php

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/php?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.4.27-1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High