ubuntu · CVE-2016-9596

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Priority: low Published: 2018-08-16 20:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-04 19:24:37 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9596 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libxml2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): not-affected 4, needs-triage 1.

Description:

libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.

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