Bug 1232918 (CVE-2015-4603) - CVE-2015-4603 php: exception::getTraceAsString type confusion issue after unserialize
Summary: CVE-2015-4603 php: exception::getTraceAsString type confusion issue after uns...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-4603
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: Engineering1228052 Engineering1228053 Engineering1228070 Engineering1228071 Engineering1228072 Engineering1228073 Engineering1228074 Engineering1228075 Engineering1228076 Engineering1228077
Blocks: Embargoed1213462
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-17 19:56 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:33 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: php 5.4.40, php 5.5.24, php 5.6.8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A flaw was discovered in the way PHP performed object unserialization. Specially crafted input processed by the unserialize() function could cause a PHP application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-07-09 21:35:32 UTC

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1135 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: php security and bug fix update 2015-06-23 12:11:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1186 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: php55-php security update 2015-06-25 12:31:54 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1187 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: rh-php56-php security update 2015-06-25 12:43:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1218 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: php security update 2015-07-09 21:01:41 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2015-06-17 19:56:58 UTC 
A type confusion issue was found in exception::getTraceAsString().  If a specially crafted input is unserialized, it could lead to information leak and possibly code execution.

The issue was reported upstream in:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69152#1425357025

and was corrected in:

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=a894a8155fab068d68a04bf181dbaddfa01ccbb0

See also bug 1222538 comment 7.
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2015-06-17 20:13:17 UTC 
This issue was already corrected in Red Hat Software Collections php54 collection in Red Hat Software Collections 2.0, when php54-php component was updated to the fixed upstream version 5.4.40:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-23 08:14:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1135 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-25 08:33:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2015:1186 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1186.html
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-25 08:44:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2015:1187 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1187.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-09 17:08:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1218 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.