[Secure-testing-team] Bug#780827: xerces-c: CVE-2015-0252: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: xerces-c
Version: 3.1.1-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for xerces-c.

CVE-2015-0252[0]:
Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input

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-2015-0252
[1] https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2015-0252.txt
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1667870

Regards,
Salvatore

p.s.: I uploaded already prepared packages for wheezy-security, but
the packages are not yet released.