CVE-2012-6702: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Expat, when used in a parser that has not called XML_SetHashSalt or passed it a seed of 0, makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via vectors involving use of the srand function.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Android: version 4.4.4 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only
• Libexpat Project Libexpat: before 2.2.0 (fixed in 2.2.0)

Published 2016-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.