Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201644720000000
Revision Date:2016-06-30Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-4472 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description:The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-4472
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • cadaver: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
  • OR coin3: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
  • OR expat package in cosmic, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '2.1.1-1ubuntu1').
  • OR matanza: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
  • OR smart: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'code-not-compiled').
  • OR swish-e: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
  • OR tla package in cosmic, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '1.3.5+dfsg-15').
  • OR vnc4: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue.
  • OR xmlrpc-c: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
  • OR xotcl: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
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