CVE-2018-14567: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libxml2 2.9.8, if --with-lzma is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted XML file that triggers LZMA_MEMLIMIT_ERROR, as demonstrated by xmllint, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8035 and CVE-2018-9251.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: version 2.9.8 only

Published 2018-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.