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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2696-1 libjdom2-java -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2021

Affected Packages:

libjdom2-java

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-33813.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in libjdom2-java, a library for reading and manipulating XML documents. Attackers could have caused a denial of service attack via a specially-crafted HTTP request.

• CVE-2021-33813

  An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.6-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libjdom2-java packages.

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