vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4991-1 (CVE-2021-3537): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2021-05-14
Added
2021-06-18
Modified
2024-11-15

Description

A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2-utils
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