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Ubuntu 12.04 ESM USN-3600-2 Critical: PHP Fixes For XSS And DoS

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2018
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Various vulnerabilities in PHP were resolved in Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3600-3, further improving system security.
Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Software Description:

- 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)

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  libapache2-mod-php5             5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
  php5                            5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
  php5-cgi                        5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
  php5-cli                        5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30
  php5-fpm                        5.3.10-1ubuntu3.30

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3600-2

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3600-1

  CVE-2018-5712, CVE-2018-7584

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