USN-3382-1: PHP vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3382-1

10th August, 2017

php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Software description

php5
– HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
php7.0
– HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that the PHP opcache created keys for files it cached
based on their filepath. A local attacker could possibly use this issue in
a shared hosting environment to obtain sensitive information. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8994)

It was discovered that the PHP URL parser incorrectly handled certain URI
components. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass
hostname-specific URL checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-10397)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain boolean parameters
when unserializing data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-11143)

Sebastian Li, Wei Lei, Xie Xiaofei, and Liu Yang discovered that PHP
incorrectly handled the OpenSSL sealing function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2017-11144)

Wei Lei and Liu Yang discovered that the PHP date extension incorrectly
handled memory. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to disclose
sensitive information from the server. (CVE-2017-11145)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain PHAR archives. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash or disclose
sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-11147)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled locale length. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in
a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11362)

Wei Lei and Liu Yang discovered that PHP incorrectly handled parsing ini
files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11628)

It was discovered that PHP mbstring incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-9224, CVE-2017-9226, CVE-2017-9227, CVE-2017-9228, CVE-2017-9229)