php5 vulnerability

7 April 2014

php5 vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

PHP could be made to crash if it processed a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP’s embedded libmagic library incorrectly handled PE executables. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3

php5-cgi - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3

php5-cli - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 12.10

libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8

php5-cgi - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8

php5-cli - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11

php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11

php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24

php5-cgi - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24

php5-cli - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24

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

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

References

• CVE-2014-2270