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USN-2983-1: Expat vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2983-1 18th May, 2016 expat vulnerability 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 Expat could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description expat – XML parsing C library Details Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XMLdata. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked intoopening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service, orpossibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libexpat1 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1 lib64expat1 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 15.10: libexpat1 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.15.10.1 lib64expat1 2.1.0-7ubuntu0.15.10.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libexpat1 2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2 lib64expat1 2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libexpat1 [ more… ]