USN-3902-2: PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

USN-3902-1 fixed a vulnerability in PHP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the PHP XML-RPC module incorrectly handled decoding
XML data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9020, CVE-2019-9024)

It was discovered that the PHP PHAR module incorrectly handled certain
filenames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9021)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled mbstring regular
expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9023)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.33
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.33
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.33
• php5-fpm - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.33
• php5-xmlrpc - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.33

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

References

• CVE-2019-9020
• CVE-2019-9021
• CVE-2019-9023
• CVE-2019-9024

Related notices

• USN-3902-1