| Summary: | <dev-lang/php-{5.4.27,5.5.11} : Fileinfo libmagic AWK File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2013-7345) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | php-bugs |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://secunia.com/advisories/57564/ | ||
| Whiteboard: | A3 [glsa] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Is this bug fixed as part of current stabilization (or any previous stabilizations)? CVE-2013-4345 was fixed in version 5.5.11 and 5.4.27 according to http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.11 and http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.27 that are already stabilized. Added to existing GLSA draft This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201408-11 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-11.xml by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F). |
From ${URL} : Description A vulnerability has been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the libmagic library bundled in the Fileinfo extension when processing certain AWK scripts, which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU resources consumption via a specially crafted AWK script file. The vulnerability is reported in versions 5.5.x and 5.4.x. Solution: Fixed in the source code repository. Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor. Original Advisory: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4374a52e9d13c480b4620c80a48591c6f883664b @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.