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SUSE: CVE-2016-4483: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-4483: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libxml2
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-2
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-2-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-doc
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-python
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-tools
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-x86
  • suse-upgrade-python-libxml2
  • suse-upgrade-python2-libxml2-python
  • suse-upgrade-python3-libxml2-python
  • suse-upgrade-sles12-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:1538-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1604-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1
  • DLA-503-1
  • DSA-3593
  • CVE-2016-4483
  • USN-2994-1
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