Debian: DSA-1631-2 Moderate: Libxml2 Denial of Service Correction

debian

August 26, 2008

The previous security update of the libxml2 package introduced some problems with other packages, most notably with librsvg. This update corrects these problems whilst still fixi...

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update debian moderate severity libxml2

Summary

Andreas Solberg discovered that libxml2, the GNOME XML library,
could be forced to recursively evaluate entities, until available
CPU & memory resources were exhausted.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.27.dfsg-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.32.dfsg-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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 4.0 alias etch

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