CVE-2016-4658: libxml2 vulnerabilities

September 25, 2016 (updated March 13, 2019)

Nokogiri is affected via its dependency libxml2. CVE-2016-4448: Format string vulnerability in libxml2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors. CVE-2016-4658: libxml2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted XML document. CVE-2016-5131: libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

References

people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-4448.html
people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-4658.html
people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5131.html
github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1615

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