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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3276-1 lava -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Jan 2023

Affected Packages:

lava

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1024429.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-44641.

More information:

Igor Ponomarev discovered that LAVA, a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for running tests, was susceptible to denial of service via recursive XML entity expansion.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 2019.01-5+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your lava packages.

For the detailed security status of lava please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/lava

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