Summary
Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development. It has been decided to follow the stable 5.4.x releases for the Wheezy PHP packages.
Consequently the vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading PHP to a new upstream version 5.4.34, which includes additional bug fixes, new features and possibly incompatible changes. Please refer to the upstream changelog for more information:
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.34
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.34-0+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
php5 on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-3668, CVE-2014-3669, CVE-2014-3670 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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