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Debian 1.1.26-6 DSA-2654-1 Urgent: libxslt Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2013
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Important security patch released for libxslt in Debian to mitigate denial of service vulnerabilities caused by specially designed xsl stylesheets.
Nicolas Gregoire discovered that libxslt, an XSLT processing runtime library, is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities via crafted xsl stylesheets

Summary

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.26-6+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.26-14.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.26-14.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxslt 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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Package: libxslt
CVE ID: CVE-2012-6139

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