vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2994-1 (CVE-2015-8806): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 13, 2016
Added
Jun 6, 2016
Modified
Mar 18, 2026

Description

dict.c in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via an unexpected character immediately after the "<!DOCTYPE html" substring in a crafted HTML document.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2
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