SUSE: 2016:1538-1 Important: libxml2 Buffer Overread Remediations
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June 9, 2016
An update that fixes 15 vulnerabilities is now available
Summary
This update for libxml2 fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2016-2073, CVE-2015-8806, CVE-2016-1839: A Heap-buffer overread was fixed in libxml2/dict.c [bsc#963963, bsc#965283, bsc#981114]. - CVE-2016-4483: Code was added to avoid an out of bound access when serializing malformed strings [bsc#978395]. - CVE-2016-1762: Fixed a heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar [bsc#981040]. - CVE-2016-1834: Fixed a heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat [bsc#981041]. - CVE-2016-1833: Fixed a heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar [bsc#981108]. - CVE-2016-1835: Fixed a heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs [bsc#981109]. - CVE-2016-1837: Fixed a heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral [bsc#981111]. - CVE-2016-1838: Fixed a heap-based buffer overread in
Topics Covered
References
#963963 #965283 #978395 #981040 #981041 #981108
#981109 #981111 #981112 #981114 #981115 #981548
#981549 #981550
Cross- CVE-2015-8806 CVE-2016-1762 CVE-2016-1833
CVE-2016-1834 CVE-2016-1835 CVE-2016-1837
CVE-2016-1838 CVE-2016-1839 CVE-2016-1840
CVE-2016-2073 CVE-2016-3705 CVE-2016-4447
CVE-2016-4448 CVE-2016-4449 CVE-2016-4483
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8806.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1762.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CV...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1538-1
Rating: important
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