Summary
The remote host is missing an update to php-json-ext announced via advisory DSA 1775-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201775-1
Insight
It was discovered that php-json-ext, a JSON serialiser for PHP, is prone to a denial of service attack, when receiving a malformed string via the json_decode function.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.2+etch1.
The stable distribution (lenny) does not contain a separate php-json-ext package, but includes it in the php5 packages, which will be fixed soon.
The testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid) do not contain a separate php-json-ext package, but include it in the php5 packages.
We recommend that you upgrade your php-json-ext packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1271 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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