jeudi 29 décembre 2016

3 Critical Zero-Day Flaws Found in PHP 7 — One Remains Unpatched!

3 Critical Zero-Day Flaws Found in PHP 7

While researchers discovered flaws in the same mechanism, the vulnerabilities in PHP 7 are different from what was found in PHP 5.

Tracked as CVE-2016-7479, CVE-2016-7480, and CVE-2016-7478, the zero-day flaws can be exploited in a similar manner as a separate vulnerability (CVE-2015-6832) detailed in Check Point's August report.
The first two vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow a hacker to take full control over the target server, enabling the attacker to do anything from spreading malware to steal customer data or to defacing it.

The third vulnerability could be exploited to generate a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, allowing a hacker to hang the website, exhaust its memory consumption and eventually shut down the target system, researchers explain in their report [PDF].

According to Yannay Livneh of Check Point's exploit research team, none of the above vulnerabilities were found exploited in the wild by hackers.

The check Point researchers reported all the three zero-day vulnerabilities to the PHP security team on September 15 and August 6.

Patches for two of the three flaws were issued by the PHP security team on 13th October and 1st December, but one of them remains unpatched.

Besides patches, Check Point also released IPS signatures for the three vulnerabilities on the 18th and 31st of October to protect users against any attack that exploits these vulnerabilities.

In order to ensure the webserver’s security, users are strongly recommended to upgrade their servers to the latest version of PHP.

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