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Medium ALSA-2025:23309 3 CVEs

Moderate: php:8.3 security update

Published Dec 16, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

Security Fix(es):

* php: pgsql extension does not check for errors during escaping (CVE-2025-1735)
* php: NULL Pointer Dereference in PHP SOAP Extension via Large XML Namespace Prefix (CVE-2025-6491)
* php: PHP Hostname Null Character Vulnerability (CVE-2025-1220)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 32

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 apcu-panel 5.1.23-1.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-bcmath 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-cli 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-common 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-dba 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-dbg 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-devel 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-embedded 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-enchant 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-ffi 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-fpm 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-gd 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-gmp 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-intl 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-ldap 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-mbstring 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-mysqlnd 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-odbc 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-opcache 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pdo 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pecl-apcu 5.1.23-1.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pecl-apcu-devel 5.1.23-1.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pecl-redis6 6.1.0-2.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pecl-rrd 2.0.3-4.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pecl-xdebug3 3.3.1-1.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pecl-zip 1.22.3-1.module_el9.6.0+151+5f31e576
AlmaLinux · 9 php-pgsql 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-process 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-snmp 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-soap 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8
AlmaLinux · 9 php-xml 8.3.26-1.module_el9.7.0+197+324afee8

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Medium 5.9

    pgsql extension does not check for errors during escaping

    In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* pgsql and pdo_pgsql escaping functions do not check if the underlying quoting functions returned errors. This could cause crashes if Postgres server rejects the string as inv…

  • Medium 5.9

    NULL Pointer Dereference in PHP SOAP Extension via Large XML Namespace Prefix

    In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 when parsing XML data in SOAP extensions, overly large (>2Gb) XML namespace prefix may lead to null pointer dereference. This may lead to crashes and affect the…

  • Low 3.7

    Null byte termination in hostnames

    In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 some functions like fsockopen() lack validation that the hostname supplied does not contain null characters. This may lead to other functions like parse_url() t…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1220
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1735
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6491
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2378689
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2378690
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2379792
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-23309.html