Executive Summary



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Summary
Title PHP vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3766-1 First vendor Publication 2018-09-18
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-09-18
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 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 - php5: 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)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libapache2-mod-php7.2 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
php7.2-cgi 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
php7.2-cli 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
php7.2-fpm 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libapache2-mod-php7.0 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
php7.0-cgi 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
php7.0-cli 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
php7.0-fpm 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.26
php5-cgi 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.26
php5-cli 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.26
php5-fpm 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.26

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.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3766-1
CVE-2015-9253, CVE-2018-14851, CVE-2018-14883

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php7.2/7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php7.0/7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.26

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3766-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
25 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
25 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 848
Os 4
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4353.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1490.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-24 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1066.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-24 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1067.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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