PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-11-26
Candidate: CVE-2015-7500
PublicDate: 2015-12-15 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7500
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2834-1
Description:
 The xmlParseMisc function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows
 context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds
 heap read) via unspecified vectors related to incorrect entities boundaries
 and start tags.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756525
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Kostya Serebryany
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_libxml2:
 upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=f1063fdbe7fa66332bbb76874101c2a7b51b519f
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