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libxml2 vulnerability CVE-2016-9318 #77

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ipuustin opened this issue Dec 9, 2016 · 1 comment
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libxml2 vulnerability CVE-2016-9318 #77

ipuustin opened this issue Dec 9, 2016 · 1 comment
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ipuustin commented Dec 9, 2016

See https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9318 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772726 . The initial CVSSv3 vulnerabiilty score is 7.8 (high).

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ipuustin commented Dec 9, 2016

libxml2 is a widely used component in the distribution (11 direct reverse dependencies), so it's difficult to estimate the vulnerability score. However, at least libsoup will parse network-provided xml files. It's safe to assume that the vulnerabilty score will be high. The fix to the bug appears to be still not merged to libxml2 git repository.

@mythi mythi added the bug label Dec 13, 2016
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