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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2479-1 libxml2 -- off-by-one

Date Reported:

23 May 2012

Affected Packages:

libxml2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3102.

More information:

Jueri Aedla discovered an off-by-one in libxml2, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.8.dfsg-9.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxml2 packages.