MGASA-2015-0358

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    MGASA-2015-0358

    Published: 8 Sept 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-1819

    Summary: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability: The xmlreader in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack (CVE-2015-1819). The libxml2 package has been patched to fix this issue, as well as two out-of-bounds read issues (bgo#744980, bgo#746048).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0358.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16286, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744980, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746048, http://lwn.net/Alerts/650108/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libxml2?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.1-2.3.mga4

    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