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Security Update Available for Ubuntu, Which US-CERT Says Has Vulnerabilities

A security update is available for Ubuntu, an open source software platform that “runs everywhere from the smartphone, the tablet and the PC to the server and the cloud,” the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (U.S.-CERT) said Thursday. Multiple PHP…

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vulnerabilities affecting Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS, may have allowed a hacker to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code, a U.S.-CERT notice said. The problem can be corrected by updating the system, Ubuntu said.