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Ubuntu: USN-2984-1 (CVE-2016-4539): PHP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2984-1 (CVE-2016-4539): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/24/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

The xml_parse_into_struct function in ext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer under-read and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data in the second argument, leading to a parser level of zero.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php7-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cli
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cgi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cli
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-fpm

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