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Debian: DSA-3205-1 moderate: batik XML entity access risk

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2015
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Debian Security Announcement DSA-3206-2 tackles vulnerabilities concerning image processing in ImageMagick. Users urged to update for enhanced protection.
Nicolas Gregoire and Kevin Schaller discovered that Batik, a toolkit for processing SVG images, would load XML external entities by default
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7+dfsg-3+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7+dfsg-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your batik 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: batik
CVE ID: CVE-2015-0250

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security advisory moderate debian resource consumption access risk XML access SVG toolkit

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