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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : PHP vulnerability (USN-3702-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110940

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3702-2 advisory.

 USN-3702-1 fixed a vulnerability in PHP. PHP 7.2.7 did not actually include the fix for CVE-2018-12882.
 This update adds a backported patch to correct the issue.

 We apologize for the inconvenience.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3702-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110940

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3702-2.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2018

Updated: 10/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12882

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-snmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-gmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-zip, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php7.2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-opcache, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-dba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-odbc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-xml, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-gd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-sybase, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-bz2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-json, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-xsl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-enchant, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-cli, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-soap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-imap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-ldap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-fpm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-intl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-pspell, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-phpdbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-recode, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-readline, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-tidy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libphp7.2-embed, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-interbase, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php7.2-curl

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12882

USN: 3702-2