Security update for xml-security-c

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Thu Jul 7 18:40:33 UTC 2011


Hello folks,

Upstream has released a security advisory for XML Security for C++, which
is packaged for Debian as xml-security-c.  The upstream advisory is at:

    http://santuario.apache.org/secadv/CVE-2011-2516.txt

I've uploaded fixed 1.6.1-1 packages to Debian unstable, and have
backported the patch to XML Security for C++ 1.5.1 and prepared packages
for squeeze.  I've tested the new library by running through a Shibboleth
authentication and attribute retrieval, but have not gone so far as to try
to reproduce the bug and verify it that way.

Attached is the debdiff between 1.5.1+squeeze1 and 1.5.1.  Is this good to
upload to stable-security?  (The new packages are built with -sa.)

I'm working on a fix for lenny now.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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