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HistoryMay 20, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2016-1836

2016-05-2000:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
10

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

84.7%

Use-after-free vulnerability in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function in
libxml2 before 2.9.4, as used in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before
10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1, allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML document.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
tyhicks 2.9.2 first introduced the flaw but it was backported to Trusty via 0006-Fix-a-parsing-bug-on-non-ascii-element-and-CR-LF-usa.patch
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchlibxml2< 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.8UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.10noarchlibxml2< 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu0.4UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchlibxml2< 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

84.7%