lxml vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-3146  

lxml could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

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.

21 May 2014

lxml vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 13.10
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

lxml could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Software Description

  • lxml - pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries

Details

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.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
python-lxml - 3.3.3-1ubuntu0.1
python3-lxml - 3.3.3-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 13.10
python-lxml - 3.2.0-1ubuntu0.1
python3-lxml - 3.2.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
python-lxml - 2.3.2-1ubuntu0.2
python3-lxml - 2.3.2-1ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References