Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5300): Expat vulnerabilities
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
06/16/2016
07/25/2018
06/20/2016
11/27/2024
Description
The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1
- ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-c-4
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-core-c3
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