This bug was fixed in the package libxml2 - 2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.3
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libxml2 (2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.3) quantal-security; urgency=low
* SECURITY UPDATE: external entity expansion attack (LP: #1194410)
- debian/patches/CVE-2013-0339.patch: do not fetch external parsed
entities in parser.c, added test to test/errors/extparsedent.xml,
result/errors/extparsedent.xml.
- CVE-2013-0339
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via incomplete document
- debian/patches/CVE-2013-2877.patch: try to stop parsing as quickly as
possible in parser.c, include/libxml/xmlerror.h.
- CVE-2013-2877
-- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:53:41
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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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