USN-3953-1: PHP vulnerabilities
23 April 2019
Several security issues were fixed in PHP.
Releases
Packages
- php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
- php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
Details
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in JPEG
images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
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libapache2-mod-php7.2
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
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php7.2-cgi
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
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php7.2-cli
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
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php7.2-fpm
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.10
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libapache2-mod-php7.2
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
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php7.2-cgi
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
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php7.2-cli
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
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php7.2-fpm
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
Ubuntu 18.04
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libapache2-mod-php7.2
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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php7.2-cgi
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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php7.2-cli
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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php7.2-fpm
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7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04
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libapache2-mod-php7.0
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
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php7.0-cgi
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
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php7.0-cli
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
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php7.0-fpm
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04, this update uses a new
upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3953-2: php5-enchant, php5-intl, php5-sybase, php5, php5-pspell, php5-fpm, php5-mysql, php5-tidy, libphp5-embed, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-dev, php5-pgsql, php5-xsl, php5-gd, php5-snmp, php5-odbc, libapache2-mod-php5, php-pear, php5-ldap, php5-readline, php5-cgi, php5-xmlrpc, php5-common, php5-mysqlnd, php5-cli, php5-sqlite, php5-curl, php5-recode, php5-gmp