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USN-4166-1: PHP vulnerability

28 October 2019

PHP could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

  • php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.3 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain paths when being
used in FastCGI configurations. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to execute arbitrary code.

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References

Related notices

  • USN-4166-2: php5-intl, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-common, php5-xmlrpc, php5-gmp, php5-recode, php5-curl, php5-sqlite, libphp5-embed, php5-fpm, php5-mysql, php5-gd, php5-dev, php5-tidy, php5-sybase, php5-mysqlnd, php5-cgi, php5-pspell, php5, php5-cli, php5-pgsql, php-pear, php5-ldap, php5-xsl, php5-readline, php5-snmp, php5-odbc, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-enchant