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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2834-1 14th December, 2015 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 Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certainmalformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked intoopening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly causelibxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5312,CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499,CVE-2015-7500) Hugh Davenport discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certainmalformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked intoopening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly causelibxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8241,CVE-2015-8242) Hanno Boeck discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certainmalformed documents. If a user or automated [ more… ]