SB2025042955 - Fedora 40 update for php-phpseclib

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SB2025042955 - Fedora 40 update for php-phpseclib

Published: April 29, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025042955
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-52892)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling some characters in Subject Alternative Name fields in TLS certificates. These fields are incorrectly allowed to have a special meaning in regular expressions (such as a + wildcard), leading to name confusion in X.509 certificate host verification.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27354)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in isPrime() and randomPrime() functions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References