SB2013041104 - Information disclosure in php (Alpine package)
Published: April 11, 2013
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013041104
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1643)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.23 and 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-1824.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0b87ff7e2a869d1cf5d50c94b58397b7f4742096
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f5b55e3ab4dd0db33562854107a7393e8e75db6d
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=27fdd4129d481f98cce20bd6a6b5053497780a5c
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=655b4d53843b6c3fd82effb4f81fdf08a1bf7fc1