[arch-security] [Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201411-13] php: denial of service

[Levente Polyak]

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201411-13
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2014-11-13
CVE-ID  : CVE-2014-3710
Package : php
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE-2014

Summary
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The package php before version 5.6.3-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service through out-of-bounds read.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 5.6.3-1.

# pacman -Syu "php>=5.6.3-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream [0] in version 5.6.3.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way the file information
(fileinfo) extension parsed executable and linkable format (ELF) files.

Impact
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A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using
fileinfo via a specially crafted ELF file.

References
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[0] http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=patch;h=180322
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3710
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155071
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42764
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68283

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