USN-6102-1: xmldom vulnerabilities

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node-xmldom - A pure JavaScript W3C standard-based `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module.

Details

It was discovered that xmldom incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-21366)

It was discovered that xmldom incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2022-37616, CVE-2022-39353)

It was discovered that xmldom incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-21366)

It was discovered that xmldom incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2022-37616, CVE-2022-39353)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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Ubuntu Release	Package Version
22.10 kinetic	node-xmldom – 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 jammy	node-xmldom – 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 focal	node-xmldom – 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1

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