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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-508-1 expat -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

08 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

expat

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-6702, CVE-2016-5300.

More information:

Two related issues have been discovered in Expat, a C library for parsing XML.

• CVE-2012-6702

  This issue was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XML_Parse() seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for rand() calls.

• CVE-2016-5300

  This is the product of an incomplete solution for CVE-2012-0876. The parser poorly seeds the random number generator allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with crafted identifiers.

You might need to manually restart programs and services using expat libraries.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-1+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.

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