USN-3600-2: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

USN-3600-1 fixed a vulnerability in PHP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

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. (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 12.04

• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
• php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30

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

References

• CVE-2018-5712
• CVE-2018-7584

Related notices

• USN-3600-1
• USN-3566-1