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Ubuntu: USN-4784-1 (CVE-2016-2099): Xerces-C++ vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4784-1 (CVE-2016-2099): Xerces-C++ vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/13/2016
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 3.1.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via an invalid character in an XML document.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxerces-c-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxerces-c-doc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxerces-c-samples
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxerces-c3-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxerces-c3-2

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