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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3575-1 libxstream-java -- security update

Date Reported:

12 May 2016

Affected Packages:

libxstream-java

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3674.

More information:

It was discovered that XStream, a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again, was susceptible to XML External Entity attacks.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.7-2+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxstream-java packages.