PHP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• php5 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
• php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

USN-5006-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain PHAR files. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-7068)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled parsing URLs with passwords.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to mis-parse
the URL and produce wrong data. (CVE-2020-7071)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain malformed XML data
when being parsed by the SOAP extension. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-21702)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the pdo_firebase module. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-21704)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled the FILTER_VALIDATE_URL
check. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a server-
side request forgery attack. (CVE-2021-21705)