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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2137-1 (libxml2)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
13 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libxml2 announced via advisory DSA 2137-1.
Insight
Insight
Yang Dingning discovered a double free in libxml's Xpath processing, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny3. For the upcoming stable distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.8.dfsg-2.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.