Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : php5 vulnerabilities (USN-2501-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 81399
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-8142, CVE-2015-0231)
Brian Carpenter discovered that the PHP CGI component incorrectly handled invalid files. A local attacker could use this issue to obtain sensitive information, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2014-9427)
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain pascal strings in the fileinfo extension. 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 and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2014-9652)
Alex Eubanks discovered that PHP incorrectly handled EXIF data in JPEG images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10.
(CVE-2015-0232)
It was discovered that the PHP opcache component incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-1351)
It was discovered that the PHP PostgreSQL database extension incorrectly handled certain pointers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-1352).
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.