USN-462-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Details

A flaw was discovered in the FTP command handler in PHP. Commands were
not correctly filtered for control characters. An attacker could issue
arbitrary FTP commands using specially crafted arguments. (CVE-2007-2509)

Ilia Alshanetsky discovered a buffer overflow in the SOAP request handler
in PHP. Remote attackers could send a specially crafted SOAP request
and execute arbitrary code with web server privileges. (CVE-2007-2510)

Ilia Alshanetsky discovered a buffer overflow in the user filter factory
in PHP. A local attacker could create a specially crafted script and
execute arbitrary code with web server privileges. (CVE-2007-2511)

Gregory Beaver discovered that the PEAR installer did not validate
installation paths. If a user were tricked into installing a malicious
PEAR package, an attacker could overwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2007-2519)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04

• php5-cli - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
• php-pear - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
• php5-cgi - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
• php5-xmlrpc - 5.2.1-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 6.10

• php5-cli - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
• php-pear - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
• php5-cgi - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5
• php5-xmlrpc - 5.1.6-1ubuntu2.5

Ubuntu 6.06

• php5-cli - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
• php-pear - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
• php5-cgi - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8
• php5-xmlrpc - 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.8

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-2509
• CVE-2007-2510
• CVE-2007-2511
• CVE-2007-2519