USN-2994-1

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USN-2994-1

Summary: libxml2 vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8806, CVE-2016-2073, CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705, CVE-2016-4447) It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1834) Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1833, CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839) Wei Lei and Liu Yang discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1835, CVE-2016-1837) Wei Lei and Liu Yang discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1836) Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1840) It was discovered that libxml2 would load certain XML external entities. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files or cause resource consumption. (CVE-2016-4449) Gustavo Grieco discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4483)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2994-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8806, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1762, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1833, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1834, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1835, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1836, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1837, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1838, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1839, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1840, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2073, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3627, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3705, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4447, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4449, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4483