Bug#714241: xml-security-c: CVE-2013-2210

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Thu Jun 27 07:01:26 UTC 2013


Package: xml-security-c
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Justification: user security hole

Hi Russ,

the following vulnerability was published for xml-security-c. It looks
the fix for CVE-2013-2154 introduced the possibility of a heap overflow.

CVE-2013-2210[0]:
heap overflow during XPointer evaluation

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] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2210
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2210
[1] http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2210.txt
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1496703

Could you double check this, and prepare packages for squeeze and
wheezy too?

Regards,
Salvatore



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