USN-1376-1: libxml2 vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• libxml2 - GNOME XML library

Details

Juraj Somorovsky discovered that libxml2 was vulnerable to hash table
collisions. If a user or application linked against libxml2 were tricked
into opening a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a
denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04

• libxml2 - 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.8

Ubuntu 11.10

• libxml2 - 2.7.8.dfsg-4ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 11.04

• libxml2 - 2.7.8.dfsg-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 10.10

• libxml2 - 2.7.7.dfsg-4ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 10.04

• libxml2 - 2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1.4

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

References

• CVE-2012-0841