SB2013030602 - Information disclosure in PHP
Published: March 6, 2013 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013030602
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
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702221
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=8e76d0404b7f664ee6719fd98f0483f0ac4669d6
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00034.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00006.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1307.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1615.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55078
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2639
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:114
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1761-1
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459904
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918187
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0101