The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2535-1 advisory.

    Thomas Jarosch discovered that PHP incorrectly limited recursion in the fileinfo extension. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to consume resources or crash, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2014-8117)

    S. Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in the enchant binding. A remote attacker     could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-9705)

    Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2015-0273)

    It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in the phar extension. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2015-2301)

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

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PHP vulnerabilities (USN-2535-1)

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