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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4042-1 libxml-libxml-perl -- security update

Date Reported:

19 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

libxml-libxml-perl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 866676.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-10672.

More information:

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in XML::LibXML, a Perl interface to the libxml2 library, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild() call.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0116+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0128+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml-libxml-perl packages.

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