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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4085-1 (xmltooling - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Philip Huppert discovered the Shibboleth service provider is vulnerable to impersonation attacks and information disclosure due to mishandling of DTDs in the XMLTooling XML parsing library.
Affected Software
Affected Software
xmltooling on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2+deb8u2. The stable distribution (stretch) is not affected. We recommend that you upgrade your xmltooling packages. For the detailed security status of xmltooling please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.