DSA-4810-1 lxml -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4810-1 lxml -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Dec 2020

Affected Packages:

lxml

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-27783.

More information:

Yaniv Nizry discovered that the clean module of lxml, Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt could be bypassed.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.2-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lxml packages.

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