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Debian: DSA-3057-1 Critical: Libxml2 Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2014
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Important Debian Security Notice DSA-3058-1 enhances libpng to address vulnerabilities leading to potential data corruption and resource exhaustion.
Sogeti found a denial of service flaw in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files
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Summary

In addition, this update addresses a misapplied chunk for a patch
released in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (#762864), and a memory leak
regression (#765770) introduced in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9.2+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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libxml2
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3660

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