USN-1481-1: PHP vulnerabilities
19 June 2012
Several security issues were fixed in PHP.
Releases
Packages
- php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
Details
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain Tidy::diagnose
operations on invalid objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
cause PHP to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0781)
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain multi-file upload
filenames. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service, or to perform a directory traversal attack. (CVE-2012-1172)
Rubin Xu and Joseph Bonneau discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain
Unicode characters in passwords passed to the crypt() function. A remote
attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass authentication.
(CVE-2012-2143)
It was discovered that a Debian/Ubuntu specific patch caused PHP to
incorrectly handle empty salt strings. A remote attacker could possibly use
this flaw to bypass authentication. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04
LTS and Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2012-2317)
It was discovered that PHP, when used as a stand alone CGI processor
for the Apache Web Server, did not properly parse and filter query
strings. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code
running with the privilege of the web server, or to perform a denial of
service. Configurations using mod_php5 and FastCGI were not vulnerable.
(CVE-2012-2335, CVE-2012-2336)
Alexander Gavrun discovered that the PHP Phar extension incorrectly handled
certain malformed TAR files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
perform a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-2386)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.