Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-2941-1 lxml

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2941-1 lxml -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Jun 2014

Affected Packages:

lxml

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3146.

More information:

It was discovered that clean_html() function of lxml (pythonic bindings for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries) performed insufficient sanitisation for some non-printable characters. This could lead to cross-site scripting.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.2-1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.5-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lxml packages.