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USN-2726-1: Expat vulnerability

31 August 2015

Expat could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • expat - XML parsing C library

Details

It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML data. If a
user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a
crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications linked
against Expat to effect the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-3013-1: xmlrpc-c, libxmlrpc-c++4, libxmlrpc-core-c3
  • USN-2677-1: oxide-qt, liboxideqt-qmlplugin, oxideqmlscene, oxideqt-codecs-extra, oxideqt-codecs, oxideqt-chromedriver, liboxideqtquick0, liboxideqtcore0
  • USN-4772-1: xvnc4viewer, vnc4server, vnc4
  • USN-5455-1: libxmltok1-dev, libxmltok1, libxmltok