Summary
The remote host is missing an update to expat
announced via advisory DSA 2525-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202525-1
Insight
It was discovered that Expat, a C library to parse XML, is vulnerable to denial of service through hash collisions and a memory leak in pool handling.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-7+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0~beta3-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0~beta3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1148 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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