USN-2994-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities
USN-2994-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2994-1 6th June, 2016 libxml2 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in libxml2. 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. (CVE-2015-8806, CVE-2016-2073,CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705, CVE-2016-4447) 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 cause libxml2 to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1834) Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certainmalformed documents. If a [ more… ]