Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1316-1 freeplane -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
24 Mar 2018
Affected Packages:
freeplane
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 893663.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000069.
More information:

Wojciech ReguĊ‚a discovered that Freeplane, a program for working with mind maps, was affected by a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in its mindmap loader that could compromise a user's machine by opening a specially crafted mind map file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.3-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeplane packages.

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