SB2020021722 - Ubuntu update for PHP

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7060)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when using certain "mbstring" functions to convert multibyte encodings. A remote attacker can supply data that will cause function "mbfl_filt_conv_big5_wchar" to read past the allocated buffer, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.

2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7059)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when using the "fgetss()" function to read data with stripping tags. A remote attacker can supply data that will cause this function to read past the allocated buffer, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.

3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9253)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the php-fpm master process due to improper processing of crafted PHP scripts. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted PHP script, trigger the php-fpm master process to restart a child process and cause the php-fpm master process the php-fpm master process to consume all available CPU resources and excessive amounts of disk space that results in denial of service.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4279-1/