{"id":28098,"date":"2018-12-10T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3841-1-lxml-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:34:12","slug":"usn-3841-1-lxml-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-3841-1-lxml-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"USN-3841-1: lxml vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USN-3841-1: lxml vulnerability<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"lxml-vulnerability\">lxml vulnerability<\/h2>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 18.04 LTS<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 16.04 LTS<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p>lxml could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"software-description\">Software Description<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>lxml &#8211; pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"details\">Details<\/h3>\n<p>It was discovered that lxml incorrectly handled certain HTML files.<br \/>\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting<br \/>\n(XSS) attacks.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"update-instructions\">Update instructions<\/h2>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Ubuntu 18.04 LTS<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\">python-lxml<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\/4.2.1-1ubuntu0.1\">4.2.1-1ubuntu0.1<\/a><\/dd>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\">python3-lxml<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\/4.2.1-1ubuntu0.1\">4.2.1-1ubuntu0.1<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Ubuntu 16.04 LTS<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\">python-lxml<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\/3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1\">3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1<\/a><\/dd>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\">python3-lxml<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\/3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1\">3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\">python-lxml<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\/3.3.3-1ubuntu0.2\">3.3.3-1ubuntu0.2<\/a><\/dd>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\">python3-lxml<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/lxml\/3.3.3-1ubuntu0.2\">3.3.3-1ubuntu0.2<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>To update your system, please follow these instructions: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"references\">References<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.canonical.com\/~ubuntu-security\/cve\/CVE-2018-19787\">CVE-2018-19787<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/usn.ubuntu.com\/3841-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">USN-3841-1: lxml vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USN-3841-1: lxml vulnerability lxml vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary lxml could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Software Description lxml &#8211; pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries Details It was discovered that lxml incorrectly handled certain HTML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS python-lxml &#8211; 4.2.1-1ubuntu0.1 python3-lxml &#8211; 4.2.1-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS python-lxml &#8211; 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1 python3-lxml &#8211; 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS python-lxml &#8211; 3.3.3-1ubuntu0.2 python3-lxml &#8211; 3.3.3-1ubuntu0.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2018-19787 Source: USN-3841-1: lxml vulnerability<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-28098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28099,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions\/28099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}