USN-6841-2: PHP vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices

Packages

php7.0 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

USN-6841-1 fixed a vulnerability in PHP. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that PHP could early return in the filter_var function
resulting in invalid user information being treated as valid user
information. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose raw
user input information.

USN-6841-1 fixed a vulnerability in PHP. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that PHP could early return in the filter_var function
resulting in invalid user information being treated as valid user
information. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose raw
user input information.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	libapache2-mod-php7.2 – 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.17+esm5
	php7.2 – 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.17+esm5
	php7.2-cgi – 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.17+esm5
	php7.2-cli – 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.17+esm5
	php7.2-fpm – 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.17+esm5
16.04 xenial	libapache2-mod-php7.0 – 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm11
	php7.0 – 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm11
	php7.0-cgi – 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm11
	php7.0-cli – 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm11
	php7.0-fpm – 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm11

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References

CVE-2024-5458

CVE-2024-5458