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Ubuntu: USN-4274-1 (CVE-2020-7595): libxml2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4274-1 (CVE-2020-7595): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/21/2020
Created
02/13/2020
Added
02/11/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2-utils

References

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