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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1837
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) htmlPArsePubidLiteral and (2) htmlParseSystemiteral functions in libxml2 before 2.9.4, as used in A...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the (1) htmlPArsePubidLiteral and (2) htmlParseSystemiteral functions in libxml2 before 2.9.4, as used in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before 10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML document.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
libxml2
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1"}]}]
Debian:13
libxml2
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1"}]}]
Debian:14
libxml2
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org