USN-5455-1

Tim Boddy, Gustavo Grieco and others discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. These issues were only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2012-1148, CVE-2015-1283, CVE-2016-0718, CVE-2016-4472, CVE-2018-20843, CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2021-46143, CVE-2022-22822, CVE-2022-22823, CVE-2022-22824, CVE-2022-22825, CVE-2022-22826, CVE-2022-22827)

It was discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled encoding validation of certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25235)

It was discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled namespace URIs of certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25236)