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Debian DSA-5318-1: LAVA Denial of Service Vulnerability Resolved

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2023
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Igor Ponomarev discovered that LAVA, a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for running tests, was suspectible to denial...

Summary

Igor Ponomarev discovered that LAVA, a continuous integration system for
deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for
running tests, was suspectible to denial of service via recursive XML
entity expansion.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in
version 2020.12-5+deb11u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your lava packages.

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

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: lava
CVE ID: CVE-2022-44641

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