Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201712621000
Revision Date:2017-09-27Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-12621 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:During Jelly (xml) file parsing with Apache Xerces, if a custom doctype entity is declared with a "SYSTEM" entity with a URL and that entity is used in the body of the Jelly file, during parser instantiation the parser will attempt to connect to said URL. This could lead to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks in Apache Commons Jelly before 1.0.1.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-12621
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'jenkins-commons-jelly' package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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