Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1710-1 xmltooling -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 13 Mar 2019
- Affected Packages:
- xmltooling
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 924346.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-9628. - More information:
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Ross Geerlings discovered that the XMLTooling library didn't correctly handle exceptions on malformed XML declarations, which could result in denial of service against the application using XMLTooling.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.3-2+deb8u4.We recommend that you upgrade your xmltooling packages.
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