USN-2875-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2875-1 19th January, 2016 libxml2 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 15.04 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary libxml2 could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description libxml2 – GNOME XML library Details It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformeddocuments. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening aspecially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 tocrash, resulting in a denial of service. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 15.10: libxml2 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 15.04: libxml2 2.9.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.7 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.14 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to reboot your [ more… ]