Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1984-1 libxerces2-java -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 30 Jan 2010
- Affected Packages:
- libxerces2-java
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 548358.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2625. - More information:
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It was discovered that libxerces2-java, a validating XML parser for Java, does not properly process malformed XML files. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service while parsing a malformed XML file.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.1-1+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-2+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-4.1, and will migrate to the testing distribution (squeeze) shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your libxerces2-java package.
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-doc_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-doc_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_armel.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.