[SECURITY] [DSA 4085-1] xmltooling security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-4085-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 12, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : xmltooling
CVE ID : CVE-2018-0486

Philip Huppert discovered the Shibboleth service provider is vulnerable
to impersonation attacks and information disclosure due to mishandling
of DTDs in the XMLTooling XML parsing library. For additional details
please refer to the upstream advisory at
https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20180112.txt

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.5.3-2+deb8u2.

The stable distribution (stretch) is not affected.

We recommend that you upgrade your xmltooling packages.

For the detailed security status of xmltooling please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/xmltooling

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these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
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