DSA-4175-1 freeplane -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4175-1 freeplane -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Apr 2018

Affected Packages:

freeplane

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 893663.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000069.

More information:

Wojciech Regula discovered an XML External Entity vulnerability in the XML Parser of the mindmap loader in freeplane, a Java program for working with mind maps, resulting in potential information disclosure if a malicious mind map file is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.12-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.18-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeplane packages.

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