USN-4088-1: PHP vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain regular expressions.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information,
cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04

• php5-xmlrpc - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm4
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm4
• php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm4
• php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm4
• php5-cli - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm4

Ubuntu 12.04

• php5-xmlrpc - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.38
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.38
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.38
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.38
• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.38

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2019-13224