Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)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-LIBXML2-621135
  • published9 Jun 2016
  • disclosed9 Jun 2016

Introduced: 9 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-4447  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 xmlParseElementDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer underread and application crash) via a crafted file, involving xmlParseName.

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