MGASA-2014-0218

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    MGASA-2014-0218

    Published: 14 May 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3146

    Summary: Updated python-lxml package fix CVE-2014-3146

    Details: Updated python-lxml packages fix security vulnerability: The clean_html() function, provided by the lxml.html.clean module, did not properly clean HTML input if it included non-printed characters (\x01-\x08). A remote attacker could use this flaw to serve malicious content to an application using the clean_html() function to process HTML, possibly allowing the attacker to inject malicious code into a website generated by this application (CVE-2014-3146).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0218.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132472.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13326

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-lxml

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python-lxml?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.0.1-2.1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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