Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : PHP vulnerabilities (USN-8734-1)

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the USN-8734-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled Apache map decoding in SOAP servers with a typemap
    configured. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a
    denial of service. (CVE-2026-7262)

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled signed integer overflow in the metaphone() function. An
    attacker could use this issue to cause an out-of-bounds read, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2026-7568)

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled circular symbolic links in phar archives. An attacker could
    use this issue to cause unbounded recursion, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-7260)

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly escaped backslashes in the pgsql extension when
    standard_conforming_strings is enabled. An attacker could use this issue to perform SQL injection via a
    backslash breakout. (CVE-2026-17543)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libapache2-mod-php7.0', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libphp7.0-embed', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-bcmath', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-bz2', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-cgi', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-cli', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-common', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-curl', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-dba', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-enchant', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
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    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-gd', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-gmp', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-imap', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-interbase', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-intl', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
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    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-mbstring', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-mcrypt', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
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    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-opcache', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-pgsql', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-phpdbg', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-pspell', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-readline', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-recode', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-snmp', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-soap', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-sqlite3', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-sybase', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'},
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    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'php7.0-zip', 'pkgver': '7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (deb_check(release:osver, prefix:pkgname, reference:pkgver, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = '';
  extra += ubuntu_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
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}