Debian: DSA-2779-1 Critical: libxml2 DoS Issue Mitigation
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October 13, 2013
Aki Helin of OUSPG discovered many out-of-bounds read issues in libxml2, the GNOME project's XML parser library, which can lead to denial of service issues when handling XML docume...
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Summary
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze8.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2.
For the testing (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions (jessie), this
problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1+dfsg1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 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: libxml2
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2877
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