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Medium USN-4009-2 2 CVEs

php5 vulnerabilities

Published Jun 5, 2019 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

USN-4009-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly decoding certain MIME headers. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-11039)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain exif tags in images.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11040)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS php5 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm3

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 4.8

    Heap buffer overflow in EXIF extension

    When PHP EXIF extension is parsing EXIF information from an image, e.g. via exif_read_data() function, in PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.30, 7.2.x below 7.2.19 and 7.3.x below 7.3.6 it is possible to supply it with data what will cause it to read past the alloc…

  • Medium 4.2

    Out-of-bounds read in iconv.c

    Function iconv_mime_decode_headers() in PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.30, 7.2.x below 7.2.19 and 7.3.x below 7.3.6 may perform out-of-buffer read due to integer overflow when parsing MIME headers. This may lead to information disclosure or crash.

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11039
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11040