Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory SUSE-SA:2008:004.
php5 was updated to version 5.2.5 to fix several security vulnerabilities. For php4 on SLES9 the patches were backported.
- php4 on SLES9 and php5 on SLES10/10.1 contained a copy of the pcre library which was vulnerable to several security issues. On SLES9 the included library was patched. SLES10/10.1 now uses the system pcre library. 10.2 and 10.3 already used the system pcre library before. (CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2006-7230, CVE-2007-1660, CVE-2006-7227 CVE-2005-4872, CVE-2006-7228)
- flaws in processing multi byte sequences in htmlentities/htmlspecialchars (CVE-2007-5898)
- overly long arguments to the dl() function could crash php (CVE-2007-4825)
- overy long arguments to the glob() function could crash php (CVE-2007-4782)
- overly long arguments to some iconv functions could crash php (CVE-2007-4840)
- overy long arguments to the setlocale() function could crash php (CVE-2007-4784)
- the wordwrap-function could cause a floating point exception (CVE-2007-3998)
- overy long arguments to the fnmatch() function could crash php (CVE-2007-4782)
- incorrect size calculation in the chunk_split function could lead to a buffer overflow (CVE-2007-4661)
- flaws in the GD extension could lead to integer overflows (CVE-2007-3996)
- the money_format function contained format string flaws (CVE-2007-4658)
Solution: Update your system with the packages as indicated in the referenced security advisory.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=SUSE-SA:2008:004
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 7.5
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