Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development: CVE-2014-0185The default PHP FPM socket permission has been changed from 0666 to 0660 to mitigate a security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0185 ) in PHP FPM that allowed any local user to run a PHP code under the active user of FPM process via crafted FastCGI client. The default Debian setup now correctly sets the listen.owner and listen.group to www-data:www-data in default php-fpm.conf. If you have more FPM instances or a webserver not running under www-data user you need to adjust the configuration of FPM pools in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/ so the accessing process has rights to access the socket. CVE-2014-0237 / CVE-2014-0238 Denial of service in the CDF parser of the fileinfo module. CVE-2014-2270 Denial of service in the fileinfo module.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.4-14+deb7u10. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

This package is a metapackage that, when installed, guarantees that you have at least one of the four server-side versions of the PHP5 interpreter installed. Removing this package won't remove PHP5 from your system, however it may remove other packages that depend on this one.

php5 on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2943.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25