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CVE-2016-3709

Publication date 28 July 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in libxml after commit 960f0e2.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxml2 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.7
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

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Notes


mdeslaur

introduced by: https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/960f0e275616cadc29671a218d7fb9b69eb35588

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxml2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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