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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2255-1 (libxml2)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libxml2 announced via advisory DSA 2255-1.
Insight
Insight
Chris Evans discovered that libxml was vulnerable to buffer overflows, which allowed a crafted XML input file to potentially execute arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny4. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.8.dfsg-3.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.