Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1984-1 libxerces2-java -- denial of service

Date Reported:

30 Jan 2010

Affected Packages:

libxerces2-java

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 548358.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2625.

More information:

It was discovered that libxerces2-java, a validating XML parser for Java, does not properly process malformed XML files. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service while parsing a malformed XML file.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.1-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-2+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-4.1, and will migrate to the testing distribution (squeeze) shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxerces2-java package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.8.1-1+etch1_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-doc_2.9.1-2+lenny1_all.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM EABI:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_armel.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libx/libxerces2-java/libxerces2-java-gcj_2.9.1-2+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.