CVE-2011-2821

Publication date 29 August 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description

Double free vulnerability in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 13.0.782.215, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted XPath expression.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxml2	11.10 oneiric	Fixed 2.7.8.dfsg-4ubuntu0.1
	11.04 natty	Fixed 2.7.8.dfsg-2ubuntu0.2
	10.10 maverick	Fixed 2.7.7.dfsg-4ubuntu0.3
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1.3
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored
chromium-browser	11.10 oneiric	Not affected
	11.04 natty	Fixed 14.0.835.202~r103287-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
	10.10 maverick	Fixed 14.0.835.202~r103287-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 14.0.835.202~r103287-0ubuntu0.10.04.2
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

debian says it's http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=fec31bcd452e77c10579467ca87a785b41115de6

jdstrand

patch too risky for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libxml2	Upstream: ?id=f50 Upstream: ?id=fec