{"id":"MGASA-2015-0358","summary":"Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities","details":"Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability:\n\nThe xmlreader in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service\n(memory consumption) via crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion\n(XEE) attack (CVE-2015-1819).\n\nThe libxml2 package has been patched to fix this issue, as well as two\nout-of-bounds read issues (bgo#744980, bgo#746048).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:46.803531452Z","published":"2015-09-08T18:23:32Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-1819"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0358.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16286"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744980"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746048"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lwn.net/Alerts/650108/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libxml2","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/libxml2?arch=source&distro=mageia-4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.1-2.3.mga4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0358.json"}},{"package":{"name":"libxml2","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/libxml2?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.1-11.1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0358.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}