Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
Francisco Alonso discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain CDF documents. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487)
Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing SPL extension objects. An attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-3515)
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain SPL Iterators.
An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4670)
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain ArrayIterators.
An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4698)
Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled variable types when calling phpinfo(). An attacker could use this issue to possibly gain access to arbitrary memory, possibly containing sensitive information. (CVE-2014-4721).
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.