Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3199 xerces-c - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Anton Rager and Jonathan Brossard from the Salesforce.com ProductSecurity Team and Ben Laurie of Google discovered a denial of servicevulnerability in xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++. Theparser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resultingin a segmentation fault during a parse operation. An unauthenticatedattacker could use this flaw to cause an application using thexerces-c library to crash.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3199