Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-2941 lxml - security update


System information

   
Affected software Debian

Description

It was discovered that clean_html() function of lxml (pythonic bindingsfor the libxml2 and libxslt libraries) performed insufficientsanitisation for some non-printable characters. This could lead tocross-site scripting.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2941

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2014-3146 and DSA-2941.

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Advisory issued 2014-06-04
Ministerio de Defensa
CNI
CCN
CCN-CERT