Debian Security Advisory 1921 expat – denial of service

Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library, when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.95.8-3.4+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-4+lenny1…

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