USN-3059-1

It was discovered that xmlrpc-epi incorrectly handled lengths in the simplestring_addn function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using xmlrpc-epi such as PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / xmlrpc-epi

Package

Name: xmlrpc-epi
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xmlrpc-epi@0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.54.2-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi-dev-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi0",
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi0-dbg",
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi0-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}