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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1604-1] lxml security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
5 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
It was discovered that there was a XSS injection vulnerability in the LXML HTML/XSS manipulation library for Python. LXML did not remove 'javascript:' URLs that used escaping such as 'j a v a s c r i p t'. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.
Affected Software
Affected Software
lxml on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in lxml version 3.4.0-1+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your lxml packages.