USN-2535-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

Thomas Jarosch discovered that PHP incorrectly limited recursion in the
fileinfo extension. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause PHP to consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-8117)

S. Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in the
enchant binding. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2014-9705)

Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing
objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-0273)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in the phar
extension. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-2301)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
• php5-cgi - 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
• php5-cli - 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
• php5-enchant - 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
• php5-fpm - 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 14.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
• php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
• php5-cli - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
• php5-enchant - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
• php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7

Ubuntu 12.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
• php5-enchant - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17

Ubuntu 10.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
• php5-cgi - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
• php5-cli - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
• php5-enchant - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29

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

References

• CVE-2014-8117
• CVE-2014-9705
• CVE-2015-0273
• CVE-2015-2301

Related notices

• USN-2494-1: libmagic-dev, python3-magic, python-magic, file, libmagic1