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USN-882-1: PHP vulnerabilities

13 January 2010

PHP vulnerabilities

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Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that PHP did not properly handle the
ini_restore function. An attacker could exploit this issue to obtain
random memory contents or to cause the PHP server to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2009-2626)

It was discovered that the htmlspecialchars function did not properly
handle certain character sequences, which could result in browsers becoming
vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With
cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing
server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could
exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as
passwords), within the same domain. (CVE-2009-4142)

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP did not properly handle session data. An
attacker could exploit this issue to bypass safe_mode or open_basedir
restrictions. (CVE-2009-4143)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.