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| Secunia ID | |
| CVE-ID | |
| Release Date |
28 Sep 2012 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Where | |
| 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 accessThis 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: |
| Solution |
Apply updated packages. -- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -- -- Ubuntu 11.10 -- -- Ubuntu 11.04 -- -- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS -- -- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS -- |
| Original Advisory |
USN-1587-1: |