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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66516
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1949-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'php-net-ping' package(s) announced via the DSA-1949-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'php-net-ping' package(s) announced via the DSA-1949-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments (no CVE yet) or execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2009-4024) on a system that uses php-net-ping.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php-net-ping packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'php-net-ping' package(s) on Debian 4, Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4024
BugTraq ID: 37093
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37093
Debian Security Information: DSA-1949 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1949
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01044.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01152.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01130.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37451
http://secunia.com/advisories/37502
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3320
XForce ISS Database: netping-ping-command-execution(54390)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54390
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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