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USN-3766-1: PHP vulnerabilities

18 September 2018

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

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Releases

Packages

  • php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled restarting certain child
processes when php-fpm is used. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu
18.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-9253)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in JPEG
images. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14851, CVE-2018-14883)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, this update uses a new upstream
release, which includes additional bug fixes.

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

Related notices

  • USN-4279-1: php5-tidy, php5-cgi, php5-xmlrpc, php7.0-mysql, php7.0-xmlrpc, php7.2-enchant, php7.3-dev, php5-curl, php7.0-xml, libphp5-embed, php7.3-bz2, php7.0-ldap, php5-intl, php7.0-recode, php7.3-common, php7.3-sybase, php7.3-gd, php7.0-fpm, php7.3-readline, php7.2-opcache, php7.3-interbase, php5-cli, php7.0-cli, php5-gd, php7.0-mcrypt, php7.2-mbstring, php7.0-phpdbg, php5-sqlite, php5-pspell, php5-odbc, php7.2-cli, php7.0-dev, php7.2-intl, php7.3-json, php7.3-phpdbg, php7.0-cgi, php7.3-cli, php7.0-readline, php7.2-cgi, php7.3-sqlite3, php7.3-intl, php7.3-enchant, libphp7.3-embed, libapache2-mod-php5, php7.3-odbc, php7.3-mysql, php7.0-common, php5-readline, php5-sybase, php7.2-tidy, php7.2-fpm, php5-fpm, php7.3-xml, php5, php7.2-pgsql, php7.2-soap, php7.0-soap, php7.0-opcache, php7.2-odbc, php7.2-zip, php7.2-bcmath, php7.2-sqlite3, php7.2-mysql, php7.3-mbstring, php7.3-pspell, php7.2-ldap, php7.3-curl, php7.0-snmp, php7.2-pspell, php5-mysqlnd, php7.2-imap, php7.2-json, php5-enchant, php7.3-gmp, php7.0-sqlite3, php5-pgsql, php7.0-sybase, php7.2-xml, php7.3-pgsql, php7.3-recode, php7.2-phpdbg, php5-gmp, php7.0-imap, php7.3-zip, libphp7.2-embed, php7.0-xsl, php7.3-imap, php7.3-soap, php7.2-readline, php7.2-recode, php7.2-xmlrpc, php5-dev, php7.2-bz2, libapache2-mod-php7.2, php7.0-bcmath, php7.0-mbstring, libapache2-mod-php7.0, php7.0, php7.3-snmp, php7.2-dev, php7.2-snmp, php7.3-tidy, php7.3, php7.3-xmlrpc, php5-xsl, php7.3-dba, php7.3-bcmath, php5-recode, php7.0-json, php7.3-opcache, php7.0-odbc, php-pear, php7.2-gd, php7.0-pgsql, libapache2-mod-php7.3, php7.3-ldap, php7.0-pspell, php7.2-gmp, php7.3-xsl, php7.2-xsl, php5-mysql, php7.2-dba, php7.0-curl, php7.0-tidy, php7.2-interbase, php5-common, php7.2, php5-ldap, php7.0-intl, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-snmp, php7.0-gd, php7.0-enchant, libphp7.0-embed, php7.2-curl, php7.0-dba, php7.3-cgi, php7.0-zip, php7.2-sybase, php7.0-interbase, php7.3-fpm, php7.0-bz2, php7.0-gmp, php7.2-common
  • USN-5300-1: php7.0-cgi, php7.0-readline, php7.0-json, php7.0-odbc, php7.0-mysql, php7.0-bz2, php7.0-xmlrpc, php7.0-pgsql, php7.0-snmp, php7.0-pspell, php7.0-sqlite3, php7.0-xml, php7.0-common, php7.0-sybase, php7.0-curl, php7.0-tidy, php7.0-ldap, php7.0-imap, php7.0-recode, php7.0-fpm, php7.0-intl, php7.0-xsl, php7.0-soap, php7.0-gd, php7.0-enchant, libphp7.0-embed, php7.0-dba, php7.0-bcmath, php7.0-opcache, php7.0-cli, php7.0-zip, php7.0-mbstring, php7.0-mcrypt, libapache2-mod-php7.0, php7.0, php7.0-phpdbg, php7.0-interbase, php7.0-dev, php7.0-gmp
  • USN-3766-2: libapache2-mod-php5, php5, php5-cgi, php5-cli, php5-fpm