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USN-824-1: PHP vulnerability

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USN-824-1: PHP vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/05/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The exif_read_data function in the Exif module in PHP before 5.2.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed JPEG image with invalid offset fields, a different issue than CVE-2005-3353.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cli

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