USN-2875-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• libxml2 - GNOME XML library

Details

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed
documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10

• libxml2 - 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 15.04

• libxml2 - 2.9.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 14.04

• libxml2 - 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.7

Ubuntu 12.04

• libxml2 - 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.14

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2015-7499
• CVE-2015-8710

Related notices

• USN-2834-1: libxml2-utils, libxml2-doc, libxml2-udeb, python-libxml2, libxml2-dev, libxml2