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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1921-1 (expat)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to expat announced via advisory DSA 1921-1.

Insight

Insight

Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library, when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library. For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.95.8-3.4+etch1. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-4+lenny1. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201921-1

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