DSA-2886-1 libxalan2-java -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2886-1 libxalan2-java -- security update

Date Reported:

26 Mar 2014

Affected Packages:

libxalan2-java

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 742577.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0107.

More information:

Nicolas Gregoire discovered several vulnerabilities in libxalan2-java, a Java library for XSLT processing. Crafted XSLT programs could access system properties or load arbitrary classes, resulting in information disclosure and, potentially, arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.1-5+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.1-7+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.1-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxalan2-java packages.