USN-5455-1

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    USN-5455-1

    Published: 19 Jul 2022Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: libxmltok vulnerabilities

    Details: Tim Boddy, Gustavo Grieco and others discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. These issues were only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2012-1148, CVE-2015-1283, CVE-2016-0718, CVE-2016-4472, CVE-2018-20843, CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2021-46143, CVE-2022-22822, CVE-2022-22823, CVE-2022-22824, CVE-2022-22825, CVE-2022-22826, CVE-2022-22827) It was discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled encoding validation of certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25235) It was discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled namespace URIs of certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25236)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxmltok

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxmltok?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2-3ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm2

    Affected versions

    1.2-3build3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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