USN-2983-1 Expat vulnerability
Medium
Expat, Canonical Ubuntu
Gustavo Grieco 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. (CVE-2016-0718)
_Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
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Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
Gustavo Grieco