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Debian: DSA-3199-1 Moderate: Xerces-C DoS Risk Mitigated

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2015
Scroller Debian
Critical security flaw resolved in libxml2, impacting software leveraging this XML library—update advised.
Anton Rager and Jonathan Brossard from the Salesforce.com Product Security Team and Ben Laurie of Google discovered a denial of service vulnerability in xerces-c, a validating XML ...
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security advisory moderate denial of service debian xerces-c patch recommendation

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.1-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xerces-c 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/



Package: xerces-c
CVE ID: CVE-2015-0252

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security advisory moderate denial of service debian xerces-c patch recommendation

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