USN-2276-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

Francisco Alonso discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly
handled certain CDF documents. A remote attacker could use this issue to
cause PHP to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487)

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing SPL
extension objects. An attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2014-3515)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain SPL Iterators. An
attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2014-4670)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain ArrayIterators. An
attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2014-4698)

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled variable types when
calling phpinfo(). An attacker could use this issue to possibly gain access
to arbitrary memory, possibly containing sensitive information.
(CVE-2014-4721)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3
• php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3
• php5-cli - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3
• php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 13.10

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6
• php5-cgi - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6
• php5-cli - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6
• php5-fpm - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6

Ubuntu 12.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13
• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13

Ubuntu 10.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26
• php5-cgi - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26
• php5-cli - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26

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

References

• CVE-2014-0207
• CVE-2014-3478
• CVE-2014-3479
• CVE-2014-3480
• CVE-2014-3487
• CVE-2014-3515
• CVE-2014-4670
• CVE-2014-4698
• CVE-2014-4721

Related notices

• USN-2278-1: libmagic1, file, libmagic-dev, python-magic, python3-magic