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Deserialization of Untrusted Data The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-LIBXML2-621112
  • published11 Apr 2017
  • disclosed11 Apr 2017
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Introduced: 11 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-4483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

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