USN-3600-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
• php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
• php7.1 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain stream metadata. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to set arbitrary metadata.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10712)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the PHAR 404 error page. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site
scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-5712)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled parsing certain HTTP
responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-7584)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10

• libapache2-mod-php7.1 - 7.1.15-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
• php7.1-cgi - 7.1.15-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
• php7.1-cli - 7.1.15-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
• php7.1-fpm - 7.1.15-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libapache2-mod-php7.0 - 7.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
• php7.0-cgi - 7.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
• php7.0-cli - 7.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
• php7.0-fpm - 7.0.28-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.24
• php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.24
• php5-cli - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.24
• php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.24

In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10, this update uses a new upstream
release, which includes additional bug fixes.

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

References

• CVE-2016-10712
• CVE-2018-5712
• CVE-2018-7584

Related notices

• USN-3566-2: php5-cli, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-sybase, php5-cgi, php5, php5-pgsql, php5-sqlite, php5-dev, php5-snmp, php5-gmp, php5-mysqlnd, php5-common, php5-mysql, php5-curl, php5-recode, php5-odbc, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-xsl, php5-ldap, libphp5-embed, php5-gd, php5-tidy, php5-fpm, php5-intl, php5-xmlrpc, php5-pspell, php5-readline, php-pear, php5-enchant
• USN-3600-2: php5-fpm, php5-cli, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-cgi, php5
• USN-3566-1: php5-cli, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-sybase, php5-cgi, php5, php5-pgsql, php5-sqlite, php5-dev, php5-snmp, php5-gmp, php5-mysqlnd, php5-common, php5-mysql, php5-curl, php5-recode, php5-odbc, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-xsl, php5-ldap, libphp5-embed, php5-gd, php5-tidy, php5-fpm, php5-intl, php5-xmlrpc, php5-pspell, php5-readline, php-pear, php5-enchant