USN-4166-1: PHP vulnerability
28 October 2019
PHP could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.10
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libapache2-mod-php7.3
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7.3.11-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
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php7.3-cgi
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7.3.11-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
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php7.3-cli
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7.3.11-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
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php7.3-fpm
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7.3.11-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
Ubuntu 19.04
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libapache2-mod-php7.2
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
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php7.2-cgi
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
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php7.2-cli
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
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php7.2-fpm
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.04
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libapache2-mod-php7.2
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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php7.2-cgi
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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php7.2-cli
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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php7.2-fpm
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7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04
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libapache2-mod-php7.0
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.7
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php7.0-cgi
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.7
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php7.0-cli
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.7
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php7.0-fpm
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7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.7
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4166-2: libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-cli, php5-mysql, php-pear, php5-pgsql, php5-pspell, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-odbc, php5-curl, php5-readline, php5-recode, php5-sybase, php5-xmlrpc, php5-fpm, php5-xsl, php5-gmp, php5-cgi, php5-snmp, php5-gd, php5-common, php5-dev, php5-ldap, php5-mysqlnd, php5-tidy, php5-intl, php5-sqlite, php5, php5-enchant, libphp5-embed