SUMMARY
cPanel, Inc. has updated RPMs for EasyApache 4 with PHP versions 5.6.36, 7.0.30, 7.1.17, and 7.2.5 and released EasyApache 3.36.4 with PHP 5.6.36 on May 1, 2018. This release addresses vulnerabilities related to CVE-2018-10549, CVE-2018-10548, CVE-2018-10547, and CVE-2018-10546. We strongly encourage all PHP 5.6 users to update to version 5.6.36, PHP 7.0 users to update to version 7.0.30, PHP 7.1 users to update to version 7.1.17, and PHP 7.2 users to update to version 7.2.5.
AFFECTED VERSIONS
All versions of PHP 5.6 through 5.6.35
All versions of PHP 7.0 through 7.0.29
All versions of PHP 7.1 through 7.1.16
All versions of PHP 7.2 through 7.2.4
SECURITY RATING
The National Vulnerability Database (NIST) has given the following severity ratings to these CVEs:
CVE-2018-10549 – MEDIUM
PHP 5.6.36
Fixed bug in EXIF extensions related to CVE-2018-10549
PHP 7.0.30
Fixed bug in EXIF extensions related to CVE-2018-10549
PHP 7.1.17
Fixed bug in EXIF extensions related to CVE-2018-10549
PHP 7.2.5
Fixed bug in EXIF extensions related to CVE-2018-10549
CVE-2018-10546 – MEDIUM
PHP 5.6.36
Fixed bug in the iconv module related to CVE-2018-10546
PHP 7.0.30
Fixed bug in the iconv module related to CVE-2018-10546
PHP 7.1.17
Fixed bug in the iconv module related to CVE-2018-10546
PHP 7.2.5
Fixed bug in the iconv module related to CVE-2018-10546
CVE-2018-10548 – MEDIUM
PHP 5.6.36
Fixed bug in LDAP related to CVE-2018-10548
PHP 7.0.30
Fixed bug in LDAP related to CVE-2018-10548
PHP 7.1.17
Fixed bug in LDAP related to CVE-2018-10548
PHP 7.2.5
Fixed bug in LDAP related to CVE-2018-10548
CVE-2018-10547 – MEDIUM
PHP 5.6.36
Fixed bug in phar module related to CVE-2018-10547
PHP 7.0.30
Fixed bug in phar module related to CVE-2018-10547
PHP 7.1.17
Fixed bug in phar module related to CVE-2018-10547
PHP 7.2.5
Fixed bug in phar module related to CVE-2018-10547
SOLUTION
cPanel, Inc. has released updated RPMs for EasyApache 4 on May 1, 2018, with PHP versions 5.6.36, 7.0.30, 7.1.17, and 7.2.5. Unless you have enabled automatic RPM updates in your cron, update your system with either yum update or WHM’s Run System Update interface.
cPanel, Inc. has released EasyApache 3.6.4 with PHP version 5.6.36. Unless you have disabled EasyApache updates, the EasyApache application updates to the latest version when launched. Run EasyApache to rebuild your profile with the latest version of Apache and PHP.
REFERENCES
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10547
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10548
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10546
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10547
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
For the PGP-signed message, please see EA4 EA3 2018-5-1 CVE-signed.