USN-2163-1: PHP vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP's embedded libmagic library incorrectly handled
PE executables. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

• php5-cli - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
• php5-cgi - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 12.10

• php5-cli - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8
• php5-cgi - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8

Ubuntu 12.04

• php5-cli - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11
• php5-cgi - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11

Ubuntu 10.04

• php5-cli - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24
• php5-cgi - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24
• libapache2-mod-php5 - 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24

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

References

• CVE-2014-2270

Related notices

• USN-2162-1: file, libmagic1