USN-4583-2: PHP vulnerabilities

27 October 2020

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

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Releases

Packages

  • php7.4 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

Details

USN-4583-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.10.

Original advisory 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. (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)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.10

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

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