USN-1761-1: PHP vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled XML external entities in
SOAP WSDL files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read arbitrary
files off the server.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04

• php5 - 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.27

Ubuntu 12.10

• php5 - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04

• php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.6

Ubuntu 11.10

• php5 - 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.10

Ubuntu 10.04

• php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.19

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

References

• CVE-2013-1643