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Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1481-1
Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain Tidy::diagnose
operations on invalid objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
cause PHP to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0781)
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain multi-file upload
filenames. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service, or to perform a directory traversal attack. (CVE-2012-1172)
Rubin Xu and Joseph Bonneau discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain
Unicode characters in passwords passed to the crypt() function. A remote
attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass authentication.
(CVE-2012-2143)
It was discovered that a Debian/Ubuntu specific patch caused PHP to
incorrectly handle empty salt strings. A remote attacker could possibly use
this flaw to bypass authentication. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04
LTS and Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2012-2317)
It was discovered that PHP, when used as a stand alone CGI processor
for the Apache Web Server, did not properly parse and filter query
strings. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code
running with the privilege of the web server, or to perform a denial of
service. Configurations using mod_php5 and FastCGI were not vulnerable.
(CVE-2012-2335, CVE-2012-2336)
Alexander Gavrun discovered that the PHP Phar extension incorrectly handled
certain malformed TAR files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
perform a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-2386)
Affected Software/OS:
php5 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 11.10,
Ubuntu 11.04,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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