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Ubuntu: USN-2994-1 (CVE-2016-4449): libxml2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2994-1 (CVE-2016-4449): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/06/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/06/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2

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