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USN-1817-1: libxml2 vulnerability

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USN-1817-1: libxml2 vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/25/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) htmlParseChunk and (2) xmldecl_done functions, as demonstrated by a buffer overflow in the xmlBufGetInputBase function.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2

References

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