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USN-4280-1: ClamAV vulnerability clamav vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary ClamAV could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file. Software Description clamav – Anti-virus utility for Unix Details It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled memory when the Data-Loss-Prevention (DLP) feature was enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV 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 19.10 clamav – 0.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS clamav – 0.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS clamav – 0.102.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system [ more… ]

USN-4279-1: PHP vulnerabilities php5, php7.0, php7.2, php7.3 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in PHP. Software Description php7.3 – server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage) php7.2 – HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter php7.0 – HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter php5 – HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter Details It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-9253) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2020-7059) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly [ more… ]