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CVE-2015-7499

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via unspecified vectors. #### Bugs * <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756479> * <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/1525996> #### Notes Author| Note ---|--- [mdeslaur](<https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur>) | USN-2834-1 was missing part of the fix for this issue: See lp bug


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 14.04 libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
ubuntu upstream libxml2 2.9.3
ubuntu 15.04 libxml2 2.9.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.2
ubuntu 15.10 libxml2 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu0.2

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