Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1517-1 dom4j -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 24 Sep 2018
- Affected Packages:
- dom4j
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000632.
- More information:
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Mario Areias discovered that dom4j, a XML framework for Java, was vulnerable to a XML injection attack. An attacker able to specify attributes or elements in the XML document might be able to modify the whole XML document.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.1+dfsg.3-2+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your dom4j packages.
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