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Ubuntu: USN-5455-1 (CVE-2016-0718): xmltok library vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5455-1 (CVE-2016-0718): xmltok library vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/26/2016
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-c-4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-core-c3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxmltok1

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