CVE-2016-4608

Publication date 22 July 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

libxslt in Apple iOS before 9.3.3, OS X before 10.11.6, iTunes before 12.4.2 on Windows, iCloud before 5.2.1 on Windows, tvOS before 9.2.2, and watchOS before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4607, CVE-2016-4609, CVE-2016-4610, and CVE-2016-4612.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxslt	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.1.28-2.1ubuntu0.1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.1.26-8ubuntu1.4

Notes

sbeattie

may be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765380 or https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765271 and possibly addressed in 1.1.29; similar for CVE-2016-4612. fixes would be: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=5d0c6565bab5b9b7efceb33b626916d22b4101a7 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=d8862309f08054218b28e2c8f5fb3cb2f650cac7 given the above, these were fixed in the upstream 1.1.29 release

sbettie

incorporated patches into USN 3271-1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H