Debian Security Advisory
DLA-433-1 xerces-c -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 25 Feb 2016
- Affected Packages:
- xerces-c
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-0729.
- More information:
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Gustavo Grieco discovered that xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. These flaws could lead to a denial of service in applications using the xerces-c library, or potentially, to the execution of arbitrary code.
