metadata/glsa/glsa-201711-15.xml


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201711-15">
  <title>PHPUnit: Remote code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in PHPUnit which may allow an
    unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">PHPUnit</product>
  <announced>2017-11-19</announced>
  <revised>2017-11-19: 1</revised>
  <bug>635356</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-php/phpunit" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.7.15-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.7.15-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an
      instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>When PHPUnit is installed in a production environment via composer and
      these modules are in a web accessible directory, the eval-stdin.php file
      in PHPUnit contains vulnerable statements that trigger the vulnerability.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary PHP code or cause a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There are several ways to fix or mitigate this vulnerability:</p>
    
    <p>Remove PHPUnit from the production environment.</p>
    
    <p>Update PHPUnit.</p>
    
    <p>Manually apply the patch.</p>
    
    <p>Disable direct access to the composer packages by placing .htaccess file
      to /vendor folder.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All PHPUnit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-php/phpunit-5.7.15-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-9841">
      CVE-2017-9841
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-11-14T01:26:48Z">jmbailey</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-11-19T20:43:04Z">jmbailey</metadata>
</glsa>