[SECURITY] [DSA 2479-1] libxml2 security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2479-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 23, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : libxml2
Vulnerability : off-by-one
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-3102

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.

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