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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-0718): Expat vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 26, 2016
Added
May 26, 2016
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxmltok1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxmltok1t64ubuntu-upgrade-firefoxubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-c-4ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-core-c3ubuntu-upgrade-libxmltok1t64

References

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