Executive Summary

Summary
Title Expat vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3356-2 First vendor Publication 2017-07-19
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-07-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

Expat could be made to hang if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description: - expat: XML parsing C library

Details:

USN-3356-1 fix a vulnerability in Expat. This update provides the corresponding udpate for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

ﾃつ It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain external ﾃつ entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ﾃつ Expat to hang, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM: ﾃつ lib64expat1ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.5 ﾃつ libexpat1ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ ﾃつ 2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References: ﾃつ https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3356-2 ﾃつ https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3356-1 ﾃつ CVE-2017-9233

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3356-2

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Date Informations
2017-07-19 21:22:50
  • First insertion