ubuntu · CVE-2016-4571

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-02-03 15:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:54:20 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4571 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mxml), 24 status rows across 24 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 5, DNE 1, needed 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The mxml_write_node function in mxml-file.c in mxml 2.9, 2.7, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via crafted xml file.

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