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Posted on 20 March 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3199-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
March 20, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : xerces-c
CVE ID : CVE-2015-0252
Debian Bug : 780827
Anton Rager and Jonathan Brossard from the Salesforce.com Product
Security Team and Ben Laurie of Google discovered a denial of service
vulnerability in xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++. The
parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting
in a segmentation fault during a parse operation. An unauthenticated
attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using the
xerces-c library to crash.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.1-3+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xerces-c packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
