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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2890-1 libspring-java -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Mar 2014

Affected Packages:

libspring-java

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 741604.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0054, CVE-2014-1904.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in libspring-java, the Debian package for the Java Spring framework.

• CVE-2014-0054

  Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC processes external XML entities.

• CVE-2014-1904

  Spring MVC introduces a cross-site scripting vulnerability if the action on a Spring form is not specified.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.6.RELEASE-6+deb7u3.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.6.RELEASE-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your libspring-java packages.