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| Secunia ID | |
| CVE-ID | |
| Release Date |
06 Dec 2012 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Where | |
| Impact |
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 a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library. For more information see vulnerability #2 in: |
| Solution |
Apply updated packages. -- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -- -- Ubuntu 11.10 -- -- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS -- -- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS -- |
| Original Advisory |
USN-1656-1: |