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Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package texlive-bin  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-TEXLIVEBIN-665370
  • published16 Jun 2016
  • disclosed16 Jun 2016
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Introduced: 16 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5300  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

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

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.

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