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Debian: DSA 1248-1 Critical: Libsoup Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2007
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Debian Security Notice DSA 1249-1 discusses a critical security flaw in the libxml2 parsing library requiring immediate patches.
Roland Lezuo and Josselin Mouette discovered that the libsoup HTTP library performs insufficient sanitising when parsing HTTP headers, which might lead to denial of service.
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Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.2.98-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.98-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 679 adbad6fcde3be4be01c8eac2da55c712
Size/MD5 checksum: 77637 62b8b84a032e79802788ac8fad2a8b1a
Size/MD5 checksum: 479599 1c3e8c05a702340f9170d30a370a7344

Architecture independent components:

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