php7.0, php7.2 vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-11036   CVE-2019-11039   CVE-2019-11040  

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11036)

5 June 2019

php7.0, php7.2 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 19.04
  • Ubuntu 18.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Software Description

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

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11036)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly decoding certain MIME headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-11039)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11040)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04
libapache2-mod-php7.2 - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
php7.2-cgi - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
php7.2-cli - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
php7.2-fpm - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.10
libapache2-mod-php7.2 - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
php7.2-cgi - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
php7.2-cli - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
php7.2-fpm - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libapache2-mod-php7.2 - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
php7.2-cgi - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
php7.2-cli - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
php7.2-fpm - 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
libapache2-mod-php7.0 - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
php7.0-cgi - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
php7.0-cli - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.5
php7.0-fpm - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.5

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04, this update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes.

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

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