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
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
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.