php5 vulnerabilities

1 May 2019

php5 vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Software Description

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

USN-3953-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

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

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm1

php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm1

php5-cli - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm1

php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm1

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.35

php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.35

php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.35

php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.35

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

• USN-3953-1
• CVE-2019-11034
• CVE-2019-11035