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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3199-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
March 20, 2015                         http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : xerces-c
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-0252
Debian Bug     : 780827

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 parser library for C++. The
parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting
in a segmentation fault during a parse operation. An unauthenticated
attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using the
xerces-c library to crash.

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/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-3199-1: xerces-c security update

March 20, 2015
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 ...

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/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
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 parser library for C++. The
parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting
in a segmentation fault during a parse operation. An unauthenticated
attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using the
xerces-c library to crash.

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