Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 / 15.10 / 16.04 : expat vulnerability (USN-2983-1)

[Egor Kotko]

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 / 15.10 / 16.04 : expat vulnerability (USN-2983-1)

Synopsis :

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches.

Description :

Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML
data. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into
opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.

Solution :

Update the affected lib64expat1 and / or libexpat1 packages.

ISO #353

http://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=91259

[Dmitry Teselkin (teselkin-d)]

Ubuntu 14.04 should receive updated package from Canonical. We aren't maintaining expat package so there is nothing to do with 14.04.
Passing to mos-maintenance to deal with Ubuntu 12.04

[Alexey Stupnikov (astupnikov)]

We no longer support MOS5.1, MOS6.0, MOS6.1
We deliver only Critical/Security fixes to MOS7.0, MOS8.0.
We deliver only High/Critical/Security fixes to MOS9.2.