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USN-462-1: PHP vulnerabilities

22 May 2007

PHP vulnerabilities

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Details

A flaw was discovered in the FTP command handler in PHP. Commands were
not correctly filtered for control characters. An attacker could issue
arbitrary FTP commands using specially crafted arguments. (CVE-2007-2509)

Ilia Alshanetsky discovered a buffer overflow in the SOAP request handler
in PHP. Remote attackers could send a specially crafted SOAP request
and execute arbitrary code with web server privileges. (CVE-2007-2510)

Ilia Alshanetsky discovered a buffer overflow in the user filter factory
in PHP. A local attacker could create a specially crafted script and
execute arbitrary code with web server privileges. (CVE-2007-2511)

Gregory Beaver discovered that the PEAR installer did not validate
installation paths. If a user were tricked into installing a malicious
PEAR package, an attacker could overwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2007-2519)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04
  • php5-cli - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
  • php-pear - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
  • libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
  • php5-cgi - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
  • php5-xmlrpc - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu 6.10
  • php5-cli - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
  • php-pear - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
  • libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
  • php5-cgi - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
  • php5-xmlrpc - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
Ubuntu 6.06
  • php5-cli - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
  • php-pear - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
  • libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
  • php5-cgi - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
  • php5-xmlrpc - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.