This bug was fixed in the package libxml2 - 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.5
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libxml2 (2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.5) precise-security; urgency=low
* SECURITY UPDATE: external entity expansion attack (LP: #1194410)
- do not fetch external parsed entities in parser.c, added test to
test/errors/extparsedent.xml, result/errors/extparsedent.xml.
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https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=4629ee02ac649c27f9c0cf98ba017c6b5526070f
- CVE-2013-0339
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via incomplete document
- try to stop parsing as quickly as possible in parser.c,
include/libxml/xmlerror.h.
-
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=48b4cdde3483e054af8ea02e0cd7ee467b0e9a50
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https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e50ba8164eee06461c73cd8abb9b46aa0be81869
- CVE-2013-2877
-- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:57:48
-0400
** Changed in: libxml2 (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-
bin/cvename.cgi?name=2013-2877
** Changed in: libxml2 (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1194410
Title:
Apply upstream patch to close XXE vulnerability in precise
Status in “libxml2” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “libxml2” source package in Lucid:
Fix Released
Status in “libxml2” source package in Precise:
Fix Released
Status in “libxml2” source package in Quantal:
Fix Released
Status in “libxml2” source package in Raring:
Fix Released
Status in “libxml2” source package in Saucy:
Fix Released
Bug description:
In version 2.7.8 there is no way to avoid opening and reading a file
if it is specified in the ENTITY section of the document.
The issue has been raised in:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-October/msg00002.html
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693
An upstream fix has been released:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=4629ee02ac649c27f9c0cf98ba017c6b5526070f
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