Debian Essential And Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 53

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Debian: DSA-4819-1: kitty security update

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Stephane Chauveau discovered that the graphics protocol implementation in Kitty, a GPU-based terminal emulator, did not sanitise a filename when returning an error message, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands when displaying a file with cat.

Debian: DSA-4814-1: xerces-c security update

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It was discovered that xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, did not correctly scan DTDs. The use-after-free vulnerability resulting from this issue would allow a remote attacker to leverage a specially crafted XML file in order to crash the application or