USN-4583-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
• php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
• php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
• php7.4 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain encrypt ciphers.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to decrease security or cause
incorrect encryption data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-7069)

It was discorevered that PHP incorrectly handled certain HTTP cookies.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to forge cookie which is supposed to
be secure. (CVE-2020-7070)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04

• libapache2-mod-php7.4 - 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
• php7.4-cgi - 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
• php7.4-cli - 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
• php7.4-curl - 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4
• php7.4-fpm - 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 18.04

• libapache2-mod-php7.2 - 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
• php7.2-cgi - 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
• php7.2-cli - 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
• php7.2-curl - 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7
• php7.2-fpm - 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7

Ubuntu 16.04

• libapache2-mod-php7.0 - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
• php7.0-cgi - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
• php7.0-cli - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
• php7.0-curl - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16
• php7.0-fpm - 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16

Ubuntu 14.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
• php5-cgi - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
• php5-cli - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
• php5-curl - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13
• php5-fpm - 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm13

Ubuntu 12.04

• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
• php5-curl - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.48

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2020-7069
• CVE-2020-7070

Related notices

• USN-4583-2: php7.4-mysql, php7.4-pgsql, php7.4, php7.4-intl, php7.4-dba, libphp7.4-embed, php7.4-opcache, php7.4-ldap, php7.4-zip, php7.4-json, php7.4-bz2, php7.4-curl, php7.4-imap, php7.4-xsl, php7.4-bcmath, libapache2-mod-php7.4, php7.4-cli, php7.4-cgi, php7.4-snmp, php7.4-common, php7.4-dev, php7.4-sybase, php7.4-sqlite3, php7.4-xmlrpc, php7.4-readline, php7.4-soap, php7.4-tidy, php7.4-fpm, php7.4-mbstring, php7.4-interbase, php7.4-gmp, php7.4-odbc, php7.4-phpdbg, php7.4-enchant, php7.4-xml, php7.4-gd, php7.4-pspell