USN-2217-1

It was discovered that the lxml.html.clean module incorrectly stripped control characters. An attacked could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / lxml

Package

Name: lxml
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/lxml@3.3.3-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.3.3-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

3.*

3.2.0-1

3.3.0~beta2-1

3.3.0~beta4-1

3.3.1-1

3.3.2-1

3.3.2-1build1

3.3.3-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python-lxml",
            "binary_version": "3.3.3-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-lxml",
            "binary_version": "3.3.3-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3146",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}