Debian Security Advisory
DLA-181-1 xerces-c -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 27 Mar 2015
- Affected Packages:
- xerces-c
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 780827.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0252. - More information:
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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 Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in xerces-c version 3.1.1-1+deb6u1