Debian: DSA-2525-1 Moderate: Expat Denial Of Service And Memory Leak
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August 6, 2012
It was discovered that Expat, a C library to parse XML, is vulnerable to denial of service through hash collisions and a memory leak in pool handling
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Summary
It was discovered that Expat, a C library to parse XML, is vulnerable
to denial of service through hash collisions and a memory leak in
pool handling.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.1-7+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.0~beta3-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.0~beta3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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CVE ID: CVE-2012-0876 CVE-2012-1148
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