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Unscored USN-2214-2 0 CVEs

libxml2 regression

Published Jun 9, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

USN-2214-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libxml2. The upstream fix introduced a
regression when using xmllint with the --postvalid option. This update
fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity
substitution even when requested not to. If a user or automated system were
tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could
possibly cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.2

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1321869