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Debian Wheezy: DLA-930-1 Critical: libxstream-java Remote Crash Threat

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2017
Scroller Debian Lts
Enhance libxstream-java to resolve a critical remote application failure. Update implemented in version 1.4.2-1+deb7u2 for Wheezy.
It was discovered that there was a remote application crash vulnerability in libxstream-java, a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again
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Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in libxstream-java version
1.4.2-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxstream-java packages.


Regards,

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Package: libxstream-java
Version: 1.4.2-1+deb7u2
CVE ID: CVE-2017-7957
Debian Bug: #861521

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