Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package phantomjs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-PHANTOMJS-635185
  • published23 Dec 2013
  • disclosed23 Dec 2013

Introduced: 23 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4549  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (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 phantomjs package and not the phantomjs package as distributed by Ubuntu.

QXmlSimpleReader in Qt before 5.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.