USN-2214-1

Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity substitution even when requested not to. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxml2

Package

Name: libxml2
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxml2@2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2

2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu3

2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "No subscription required",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libxml2",
            "binary_version":  "2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libxml2-utils",
            "binary_version":  "2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "python-libxml2",
            "binary_version":  "2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2014-0191",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2214-1.json"