Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2012-6702): XML-RPC for C and C++ vulnerabilities
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
06/16/2016
07/25/2018
06/20/2016
03/09/2021
Description
Expat, when used in a parser that has not called XML_SetHashSalt or passed it a seed of 0, makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via vectors involving use of the srand function.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1
- ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-c-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-core-c3
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