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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4241-1 libsoup2.4 -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

libsoup2.4

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-12910.

More information:

It was discovered that the Soup HTTP library performed insufficient validation of cookie requests which could result in an out-of-bounds memory read.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.56.0-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup2.4 packages.

For the detailed security status of libsoup2.4 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libsoup2.4