vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2015-8838): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Apr 27, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, a related issue to CVE-2015-3152.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgiubuntu-upgrade-php5-cliubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpmubuntu-upgrade-php5-gdubuntu-upgrade-php5-mysqlndubuntu-upgrade-php5-snmp
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