Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.04 : php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities (USN-3382-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102416

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

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).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3382-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102416

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3382-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/11/2017

Updated: 9/18/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php7.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php5-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php5-cli, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php5-fpm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.0-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.0-cli, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.0-fpm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8994, CVE-2016-10397, CVE-2017-11143, CVE-2017-11144, CVE-2017-11145, CVE-2017-11147, CVE-2017-11362, CVE-2017-11628, CVE-2017-9224, CVE-2017-9226, CVE-2017-9227, CVE-2017-9228, CVE-2017-9229

USN: 3382-1