1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-89-1

USN-89-1: XML library vulnerabilities

Publication date

28 February 2005

Overview

XML library vulnerabilities

Releases

Details

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libxml’s FTP
connection and DNS resolution functions. Supplying very long FTP URLs
or IP addresses might result in execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process using libxml.

This does not affect the core XML parsing code, which is what the
majority of programs use this library for.

Note: The same vulnerability was already fixed for libxml2 in
USN-10-1.

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in libxml’s FTP
connection and DNS resolution functions. Supplying very long FTP URLs
or IP addresses might result in execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process using libxml.

This does not affect the core XML parsing code, which is what the
majority of programs use this library for.

Note: The same vulnerability was already fixed for libxml2 in
USN-10-1.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
4.10 warty libxml1 – 

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