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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2712-1 libjdom1-java -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

20 Jul 2021

Affected Packages:

libjdom1-java

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

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

More information:

It was discovered that there was a potential entity-expansion issue in libjdom1-java, a lightweight and fast library for using XML. Attackers could have caused a denial of service 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 1.1.3-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libjdom1-java packages.

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