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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1984-1] New libxerces2-java packages fix denial of serv

    From Giuseppe Iuculano@1:229/2 to All on Sat Jan 30 19:00:02 2010
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1984-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano January 30, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Packages : libxerces2-java
    Vulnerability : denial of service
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id : CVE-2009-2625
    Debian Bug : 548358


    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.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 908 755507a0cfcb7e2c83bb5c4a048295ec
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1691101 737df086ccae96f77334974617ccb4e0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 9951 a28511449d840005ba690a19bb6898f0

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1109884 51c1bee829550381fccc419ae13d788e

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1711507 e340cba4a2abf4f0f833488380821153
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1564 687af8f7589c187b3eb845d56a212e8a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 10682 d670183e18c295c02409a4fdefaebce5

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1127062 597c68ab6819ef03af42d61134923d59
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-doc_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2088698 44509a477751e947333653be05b5ad96

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2029670 9b7e6a7e146f4ed04c8543853eb99e5a

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1646348 d74607c34a3f04fc42d2407e742374a6

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1552678 a41c909d90a8c374099743cbcb8fc322

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2789384 c33ee0865cafb66ba5c95c8696a60ca6

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1783546 979c22e7c27eab584bf663bda7c99701

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1642400 b0a93dc38aa92787f9ab86c8641c66db

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1863554 14554d5098e58ab6b00a382b6bd35dd2

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2053338 66d637d7868f8080ae6dbc2b62b37c05

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1754172 8aec4eb9bab4bf6770498c70be6347f3


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

    - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]
    Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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