USN-6102-1: xmldom vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• node-xmldom - A pure JavaScript W3C standard-based `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module.

Details

It was discovered that xmldom incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-21366)

It was discovered that xmldom incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2022-37616, CVE-2022-39353)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10

• node-xmldom - 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• node-xmldom - 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• node-xmldom - 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2021-21366
• CVE-2022-37616
• CVE-2022-39353