Advisories » MGASA-2022-0290

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Aug 2022
Modification date: 20 Aug 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2016-3709

Description

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML files. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code
(CVE-2016-3709).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30712
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5548-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3709

SRPMS

8/core

• libxml2-2.9.10-7.5.mga8