PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-11-26
Candidate: CVE-2015-7498
PublicDate: 2015-12-15 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7498
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2834-1
Description:
 Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in
 libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial
 of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an
 encoding conversion failure.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756527
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Kostya Serebryany
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_libxml2:
 upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=afd27c21f6b36e22682b7da20d726bce2dcb2f43
upstream_libxml2: released (2.9.3)
precise_libxml2: released (2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.13)
trusty_libxml2: released (2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6)
trusty/esm_libxml2: released (2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6)
vivid_libxml2: released (2.9.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.2)
wily_libxml2: released (2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu0.2)
devel_libxml2: released (2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu2)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libxml2: released (2.9.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.2)
vivid/ubuntu-core_libxml2: DNE