PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-11-26
Candidate: CVE-2015-7499
PublicDate: 2015-12-15 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7499
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2834-1
Description:
 Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2
 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process
 memory information via unspecified vectors.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> USN-2834-1 was missing part of the fix for this issue:
 mdeslaur> See lp bug
Bugs:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756479
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/1525996
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Kostya Serebryany
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_libxml2:
 upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=28cd9cb747a94483f4aea7f0968d202c20bb4cfc
 upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=35bcb1d758ed70aa7b257c9c3b3ff55e54e3d0da
 upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=ce0b0d0d81fdbb5f722a890432b52d363e4de57b
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