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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for php54 (ALAS-2014-343) (CVE-2013-7345)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for php54 (ALAS-2014-343) (CVE-2013-7345)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/24/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/26/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-bcmath
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-cli
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-common
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-dba
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-embedded
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-enchant
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-fpm
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-gd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-imap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-intl
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-ldap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-mbstring
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-mcrypt
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-mssql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-mysql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-mysqlnd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-odbc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-pdo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-pgsql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-process
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-pspell
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-recode
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-snmp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-soap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-tidy
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-xml
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php54-xmlrpc

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