vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5061-1 (CVE-2021-31598): Scilab vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 24, 2021
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libezxml.a in ezXML 0.8.6. The function ezxml_decode() performs incorrect memory handling while parsing crafted XML files, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-scilabubuntu-pro-upgrade-scilab-dataubuntu-pro-upgrade-scilab-full-binubuntu-pro-upgrade-scilab-minimal-binubuntu-pro-upgrade-scilab-test
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