CVE-2012-0880

Publication date 8 August 2017

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Apache Xerces-C++ allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted message sent to an XML service that causes hash table collisions.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xerces-c	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-01-08]
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-01-08]
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-01-08]
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.10 utopic	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	13.10 saucy	Ignored end of life
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Notes

mikesalvatore

No fix could be found as of 2018-10-24.

rodrigo-zaiden

still no upstream fix available as of 2024-01-08

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H