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CVE-2016-4472

January 25, 2021 admin CVE, CVE-2016-4472, kubuntu, Third Party Advisory, vulnerability

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.