SB2014061501 - Amazon Linux AMI update for php55
Published: June 15, 2014
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0237)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists in cdf_unpack_summary_info function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13 due to performance degradation. A remote attacker can trigger many file_printf calls and cause the service to crash.
2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0238)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in the cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds memory access via a vector that (1) has zero length or (2) is too long and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.