Canonical has published details in a security notice about some PHP vulnerabilities that were found and repaired in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OSes.
The Ubuntu maintainers have been quick to upgrade the PHP package in all the supported OSes in order to correct a large number of issues that were identified upstream.
According to the security notice, “It was discovered that the PHP Fileinfo component incorrectly handled certain files… (read more)
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