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  2. USN-5479-2

USN-5479-2: PHP vulnerabilities

Publication date

4 July 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in PHP.

Releases

Packages

  • php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

USN-5479-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled initializing certain
arrays when handling the pg_query_params function. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-31625)

Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled passwords in mysqlnd. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-31626)

USN-5479-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled initializing certain
arrays when handling the pg_query_params function. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-31625)

Charles Fol discovered that PHP incorrectly handled passwords in mysqlnd. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-31626)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial php7.0-cgi –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm4  
php7.0-fpm –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm4  
php7.0-cli –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm4  
php7.0-pgsql –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm4  
libapache2-mod-php7.0 –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm4  
php7.0-mysql –  7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm4  

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