Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201637050000000
Revision Date:2016-05-17Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-3705 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-3705
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND libxml2 package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1').
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