dom4j vulnerability

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

* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

dom4j could be made to expose sensitive information or run
programs if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description

* dom4j - Flexible XML framework for Java

Details

It was discovered that dom4j incorrectly handled reading XML data.
A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted XML file to
expose sensitive data or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-10683)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
libdom4j-java - 1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1.1

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

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

References

* CVE-2020-10683

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