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Ubuntu 14.04 & 13.10: USN-2254-2 Moderate: PHP Permission Issues

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2014
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Debian Security Bulletin DSA-4756-1 updates python3 for several distributions and fixes critical vulnerabilities.
An improvement was made for PHP FPM environments.

Summary

An improvement was made for PHP FPM environments.

Software Description:

- php5: HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details:

USN-2254-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. The fix for CVE-2014-0185

further restricted the permissions on the PHP FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)

UNIX socket. This update grants socket access to the www-data user and

group so installations and documentation relying on the previous socket

permissions will continue to function.

Original advisory details:

Christian Hoffmann discovered that the PHP FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)

set incorrect permissions on the UNIX socket. A local attacker could use

this issue to possibly elevate their privileges. This issue only affected

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0185)

Francisco Alonso discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly

handled certain CDF documents. A remote attacker could use this issue to

cause PHP to hang or crash, resulting in...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  php5-fpm                        5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 13.10:
  php5-fpm                        5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2254-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2254-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/1334337

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June 25, 2014

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.5

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