Debian Security Advisory DSA 455-1 (libxml, libxml2)

The remote host is missing an update to libxml, libxml2 announced via advisory DSA 455-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Debian DSA-455-1 : libxml - buffer overflows

libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files. Yuuichi Teranishi Si Xi Yu ? discovered a flaw in libxml, the GNOME XML library. When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, the library uses special parsing routines which can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. If an attacker is abl...