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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1194-1 libxml2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

libxml2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-16931, CVE-2017-16932.

More information:

• CVE-2017-16931

  parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.

• CVE-2017-16932

  parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy11.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.

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