MGASA-2020-0148 - Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 01 Apr 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0148.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-7064,
     CVE-2020-7065,
     CVE-2020-7066

Critical bugs closed:
- Use-of-uninitialized-value in exif [1]
- mb_strtolower (UTF-32LE): stack-buffer-overflow at php_unicode_tolower_full [2]
- get_headers() silently truncates after a null byte [3]

Some more bugs closed, as:
- Memory corruption in preg_replace/preg_replace_callback and unicode
- restore_error_handler does not restore previous errors mask

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26365
- https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.3.16
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7064
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7065
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7066

SRPMS:
- 7/core/php-7.3.16-1.mga7

Mageia 2020-0148: php security update

Critical bugs closed: - Use-of-uninitialized-value in exif [1] - mb_strtolower (UTF-32LE): stack-buffer-overflow at php_unicode_tolower_full [2] - get_headers() silently truncates ...

Summary

Critical bugs closed: - Use-of-uninitialized-value in exif [1] - mb_strtolower (UTF-32LE): stack-buffer-overflow at php_unicode_tolower_full [2] - get_headers() silently truncates after a null byte [3]
Some more bugs closed, as: - Memory corruption in preg_replace/preg_replace_callback and unicode - restore_error_handler does not restore previous errors mask

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26365

- https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.3.16

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7064

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7065

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7066

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0148 - Updated php packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/php-7.3.16-1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 01 Apr 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0148.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-7064, CVE-2020-7065, CVE-2020-7066

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