Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2535-1
18th March, 2015
php5 vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in PHP.
Software description
- 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 version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
php5-cli
5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
-
php5-cgi
5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
-
libapache2-mod-php5
5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
-
php5-fpm
5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
-
php5-enchant
5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
php5-cli
5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
-
php5-cgi
5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
-
libapache2-mod-php5
5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
-
php5-fpm
5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
-
php5-enchant
5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
php5-cli
5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
-
php5-cgi
5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
-
libapache2-mod-php5
5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
-
php5-fpm
5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
-
php5-enchant
5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
-
php5-cli
5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
-
php5-cgi
5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
-
libapache2-mod-php5
5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
-
php5-enchant
5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.