ubuntu · CVE-2016-9597

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-07-30 14:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:14:23 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9597 medium 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:

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

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