DSA-2978-1 libxml2 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2978-1 libxml2 -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2014

Affected Packages:

libxml2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0191.

More information:

Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in libxml2 entity substitution.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1+dfsg1-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.