Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : PHP vulnerabilities (USN-3600-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 108483
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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
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 to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7584).
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
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 108483
File Name: ubuntu_USN-3600-1.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 3/20/2018
Updated: 9/17/2020
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
Risk Factor: High
VPR Score: 6.7
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3.0
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: E:P/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:libapache2-mod-php7.1, 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, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.1-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.1-cli, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.1-fpm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2018
Reference Information
USN: 3600-1