USN-6658-1: libxml2 vulnerability
Severity
medium
Vendor
VMware Tanzu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 22.04
Description
It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML documents. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6658-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: python-libxml2 - 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7 libxml2-utils - 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7 libxml2 - 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7 python3-libxml2 - 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7 libxml2-doc - 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7 libxml2-dev - 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7 No subscription required.
Fixed VMware Products and Versions
- Jammy Stemcells
- 1.390 or greater
- Operation Manager Image
- 3.0.25+LTS-Tor greater
- Operation Manager
- 3.0.25+LTS-T or greater
- Isolation Segment
- 4,0.19+LTS-T or greater
- 5.0.9 or greater
- VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 4.0.19+LTS-T or greater
- 5.0.9 or greater
- Cflinuxfs4
- 1.74.0 or greater
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6658-1
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6658-1
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6658-1
History
2024-02-26: Initial vulnerability report published.