ubuntu · CVE-2016-5131

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-07-23 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:04:52 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5131 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (chromium-browser, libxml2, oxide-qt), 21 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 15, ignored 4, DNE 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

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