Debian 3.1: DSA-1461-1 Urgent libxml2 Denial Of Service Fix
debian
January 13, 2008
Brad Fitzpatrick discovered that the UTF-8 decoding functions of libxml2,
the GNOME XML library, validate UTF-8 correctness insufficiently, which
may lead to denial of service by...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.27.dfsg-2.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.16-7sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.
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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 884 991cf7cfdaf3ef05e95ec11f1b99b345
Size/MD5 checksum: 127107 b142c10e523...
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