SB2018032906 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP



SB2018032906 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP

Published: March 29, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018032906
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10545)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to bypass security restrictions and obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper access controls. A local attacker can change UID and GID, PHP-FPM sets pool worker processes to be dumpable, attach to the PHP-FPM workers and gain access to any restricted resources that are not supposed to be allowed.

2) Null pointer dereference (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error when image resource created by imagecreate function which is not truecolor will treat as truecolor in gdImageSetAAPixelColor function when antialias option is on even 'im->tpixels' is null. A remote attacker can trigger NULL pointer dereference and cause the service to crash.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.