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Debian 9: DSA-3360-1 Critical: icu Denial Of Service Threat Mitigation

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Calendar Grey September 15, 2015
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Debian Security Notice DSA-3361-1 details an update to the libxml library designed to remediate vulnerabilities that expose systems to remote exploitation risks.
It was discovered that the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library mishandles converter names starting with x- , which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servi...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 52.1-8+deb8u3.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 55.1-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 55.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your icu 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: icu
CVE ID: CVE-2015-1270

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