[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1037534: rust-xml-rs: CVE-2023-34411

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: rust-xml-rs
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/pull/226
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for rust-xml-rs.

CVE-2023-34411[0]:
| The xml-rs crate before 0.8.14 for Rust and Crab allows a denial of
| service (panic) via an invalid <! token (such as <!DOCTYPEs/%<!A
| nesting) in an XML document. The earliest affected version is 0.8.9.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34411
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34411
[1] https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/pull/226
[2] https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/commit/c09549a187e62d39d40467f129e64abf32efc35c

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore