USN-1937-1: PHP vulnerability
5 September 2013
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.
Releases
Packages
- php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
Details
It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle certificates with NULL
characters in the Subject Alternative Name field. An attacker could exploit
this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or
alter encrypted communications.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
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libapache2-mod-php5
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5.3.2-1ubuntu4.21
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libapache2-mod-php5filter
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5.3.2-1ubuntu4.21
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php5-cgi
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5.3.2-1ubuntu4.21
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php5-cli
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5.3.2-1ubuntu4.21
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.