Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mxml  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-MXML-665742
  • published3 Feb 2017
  • disclosed3 Feb 2017

Introduced: 3 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-4571  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

The mxml_write_node function in mxml-file.c in mxml 2.9, 2.7, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via crafted xml file.