Debian Security Advisory DSA 455-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
March 3rd, 2004                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : libxml, libxml2
Vulnerability  : buffer overflows
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CAN-2004-0110

libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files.

Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml, the GNOME XML library.
When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, the library uses
special parsing routines which can overflow a buffer if passed a very
long URL.  If an attacker is able to find an application using libxml1
or libxml2 that parses remote resources and allows the attacker to
craft the URL, then this flaw could be used to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.8.17-2woody1 of libxml and version 2.4.19-4woody1 of libxml2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.8.17-5 of libxml and version 2.6.6-1 of libxml2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml1 and libxml2 packages.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

      
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  Alpha architecture:

      
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  ARM architecture:

      
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  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
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  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
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  HP Precision architecture:

      
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  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
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  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
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  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
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  PowerPC architecture:

      
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  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
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  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
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  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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