Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2391-1 Critical: PHP5 Denial Of Service

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October 30, 2014

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Software Description:

- php5: HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details:

Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the mkgmtime

function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to

crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3668)

Symeon Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing

objects. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to

crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3669)

Otto Ebeling discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the exif_thumbnail

function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,

resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2014-3670)

Francisco Alonso that PHP incorrectly handled ELF files in the fileinfo

extension. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to

crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3710)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Ubuntu Denial of Service php5

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-2ubuntu4.1
  php5-cgi                        5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1
  php5-cli                        5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1
  php5-curl                       5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1
  php5-fpm                        5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1
  php5-xmlrpc                     5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libapache2-mod-php5             5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
  php5-cgi                        5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
  php5-cli                        5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
  php5-curl                       5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
  php5-fpm                        5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5
  php5-xmlrpc                     5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libapache2-mod-php5             5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15
  php5-cgi                        5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15
  php5-cli                        5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15
  php5-curl                       5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15
  php5-fpm                        5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15
  php5-xmlrpc                     5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libapache2-mod-php5             5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28
  php5-cgi                        5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28
  php5-cli                        5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28
  php5-curl                       5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28
  php5-xmlrpc                     5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28

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