USN-2344-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that the Fileinfo component in php5 contains an integer
overflow. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service
or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted CDF file. (CVE-2014-3587)

It was discovered that the php_parserr function contains multiple buffer
overflows. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service
or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS records. (CVE-2014-3597)

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-1ubuntu4.4
• php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.4
• php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.4
• php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.4

Ubuntu 12.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.14
• php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.14
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.14
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.14

Ubuntu 10.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.27
• php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.27
• php5-cgi - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.27

After a standard system update you need to restart Apache or
php5-fpm to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-3587
• CVE-2014-3597

Related notices

• USN-2369-1: python-magic, libmagic1, python3-magic, libmagic-dev, file