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  2. USN-4583-1

USN-4583-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Publication date

14 October 2020

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Releases

Packages

  • php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.4 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain encrypt ciphers.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to decrease security or cause
incorrect encryption data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-7069)

It was discorevered that PHP incorrectly handled certain HTTP cookies.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to forge cookie which is supposed to
be secure. (CVE-2020-7070)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain encrypt ciphers.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to decrease security or cause
incorrect encryption data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-7069)

It was discorevered that PHP incorrectly handled certain HTTP cookies.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to forge cookie which is supposed to
be secure. (CVE-2020-7070)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 focal libapache2-mod-php7.4 –  7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
php7.4-cgi –  7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
php7.4-cli –  7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
php7.4-curl –  7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
php7.4-fpm –  7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
18.04 bionic libapache2-mod-php7.2 –  7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
php7.2-cgi –  7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
php7.2-cli –  7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
php7.2-curl –  7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
php7.2-fpm –  7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
16.04 xenial libapache2-mod-php7.0 –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
php7.0-cgi –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
php7.0-cli –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
php7.0-curl –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
php7.0-fpm –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
14.04 trusty libapache2-mod-php5 –  5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
php5-cgi –  5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
php5-cli –  5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
php5-curl –  5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
php5-fpm –  5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
12.04 precise libapache2-mod-php5 –  5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
php5-cgi –  5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
php5-cli –  5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
php5-curl –  5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
php5-fpm –  5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48

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