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Ubuntu update for libxml2


Secunia ID

SA50800

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2807

Release Date

28 Sep 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for libxml2. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA50092

Solution

Apply updated packages.

-- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.2

-- Ubuntu 11.10 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/2.7.8.dfsg-4ubuntu0.4

-- Ubuntu 11.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/2.7.8.dfsg-2ubuntu0.5

-- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1.6

-- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.10

Original Advisory

USN-1587-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1587-1/