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USN-3600-1: PHP vulnerabilities php5, php7.0, php7.1 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in PHP. Software Description php7.1 – 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 stream metadata. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to set arbitrary metadata. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10712) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the PHAR 404 error page. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-5712) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled parsing certain HTTP responses. A remote attacker could use this issue [ more… ]