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Package: libxml2
Version: 2.6.30.dfsg-3
Severity: normal

A vulnerability has been reported in libxml2, prior to version 2.6.31, from
Daniel Veillard:
"Two specially crafted broken UTF-8 sequences when occuring at the wrong
place lead the parser to go into an infinite loop."
The report is available at:
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-January/msg00036.html

A patch can be found at:
    http://veillard.com/libxml2.patch
The fixed source code can be downloaded from:
    ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml/libxml2-2.6.31.tar.gz


Regards
Pascal

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Architecture: i386 (i686)

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Versions of packages libxml2 depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.7-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime

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ii  xml-core                      0.11       XML infrastructure and XML catalog

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Source: libxml
Source-Version: 1:1.8.17-14.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libxml, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libxml-dev_1.8.17-14.1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libx/libxml/libxml-dev_1.8.17-14.1_i386.deb
libxml1_1.8.17-14.1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libx/libxml/libxml1_1.8.17-14.1_i386.deb
libxml_1.8.17-14.1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/libx/libxml/libxml_1.8.17-14.1.diff.gz
libxml_1.8.17-14.1.dsc
  to pool/main/libx/libxml/libxml_1.8.17-14.1.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:34:19 +0100
Source: libxml
Binary: libxml-dev libxml1
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1:1.8.17-14.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: 
 libxml-dev - Development files for the GNOME XML library
 libxml1    - GNOME XML library
Closes: 460666
Changes: 
 libxml (1:1.8.17-14.1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload by security team.
   * This update addresses the following security issue:
     - CVE-2007-6284: The xmlCurrentChar function allows context-dependent
       attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via XML
       containing invalid UTF-8 sequences (Closes: #460666).
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libxml1_1.8.17-14.1_i386.deb
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