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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-4483: libxml2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-4483: libxml2 security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/11/2017
Created
08/17/2019
Added
08/16/2019
Modified
08/16/2019

Description

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libxml2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libxml2-python

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