USN-4040-2: Expat vulnerability
26 June 2019
Expat could be made to consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources if it received a specially crafted XML file.
Releases
Packages
- expat - XML parsing C library
Details
USN-4040-1 fixed a vulnerability in expat. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain XML files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4040-1: expat, libexpat1, lib64expat1-dev, lib64expat1, libexpat1-udeb, libexpat1-dev
- USN-4852-1: vtk-examples, libvtk5-qt4-dev, libvtk5-dev, python-vtk, tcl-vtk, vtk-doc, libvtk5.10, libvtk5.8-qt4, libvtk5.8, vtk, libvtk5.10-qt4, libvtk-java
- USN-5455-1: libxmltok, libxmltok1, libxmltok1-dev