SB2018072111 - Man-in-the-middle attack in php7 (Alpine package)
Published: July 21, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018072111
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10548)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the ext/ldap/ldap.c source code file due to improper handling of return values from the ldap_get_dn function. A remote attacker can use man-in-the middle techniques to trigger ldap_get_dn() to return a NULL pointer and cause ldap_get_entries() because add_assoc_string() to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.