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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-28484): libxml2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-28484): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/21/2023
Modified
06/08/2023

Description

In libxml2 before 2.10.4, parsing of certain invalid XSD schemas can lead to a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently a segfault. This occurs in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType in xmlschemas.c.

Solution(s)

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

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