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 problems:
- CVE-2014-0207
Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team reported an
incorrect boundary check in the cdf_read_short_sector() function.
- CVE-2014-3478
Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered a
flaw in the way the truncated pascal string size in the mconvert()
function is computed.
- CVE-2014-3479
Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team reported an
incorrect boundary check in the cdf_check_stream_offset() function.
- CVE-2014-3480
Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team reported an
insufficient boundary check in the cdf_count_chain() function.
- CVE-2014-3487
Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered an
incorrect boundary check in the cdf_read_property_info() funtion.
- CVE-2014-3515
Stefan Esser discovered that the ArrayObject and the
SPLObjectStorage unserialize() handler do not verify the type of
unserialized data before using it. A remote attacker could use this
flaw to execute arbitrary code.
- CVE-2014-4721
Stefan Esser discovered a type confusion issue affecting phpinfo(),
which might allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from
process memory.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.4.4-14+deb7u12. In addition, this update contains several
bugfixes originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.
For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.6.0~rc2+dfsg-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.6.0~rc2+dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.