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Debian DSA-4215-1 Critical: Batik Denial of Service and XSS Risks

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2018
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4542-1 reveals critical vulnerabilities in libxml2, prompting users to update for better defense.
Man Yue Mo, Lars Krapf and Pierre Ernst discovered that Batik, a toolkit for processing SVG images, did not properly validate its input

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.7+dfsg-5+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.8-4+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your batik packages.

For the detailed security status of batik please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/batik

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: batik
CVE ID: CVE-2017-5662 CVE-2018-8013

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