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Debian Etch DSA-1631-1 Critical: libxml2 Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2008
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Critical security flaw rectified in libxml2 packages for Debian sarge. Upgrade guidelines issued for safety.
Andreas Solberg discovered that libxml2, the GNOME XML library, could be forced to recursively evaluate entities, until available CPU & memory resources were exhausted.
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

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

Size/MD5 checksum: 3416175 5ff71b22f6253a6dd9afc1c34778dec3
Size/MD5 checksum: 901 800082d165a5627f571f019994bee93c
Size/MD5 checksum: 146017 10fc8479d96fb23d17ac8a51bfe40db9

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1325318 11e64cd82ae7b549fa975a657f773f73

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 37976 909bab48...

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