Bug#926986: marked as done (www.debian.org: https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long XML parsing failure)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #926986,
regarding www.debian.org: https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long XML parsing failure
to be marked as done.
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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
For the past day or two, XML parsing on https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long has been failing.
The issue seems to be caused by an incorrectly escaped ampersand in the description in a DSA.
The issue has not been present before, as there has not previously been an ampersand inside a description.
I would be willing to contribute a patch if necessary.
Thanks,
Frank Dai
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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Hello Frank,
Am 13.04.19 um 09:38 schrieb Frank Dai:
> For the past day or two, XML parsing on
> https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long has been failing.> The issue seems to be caused by an incorrectly escaped ampersand in
> the description in a DSA.> The issue has not been present before, as there has not previously
> been an ampersand inside a description.>
> I would be willing to contribute a patch if necessary.
thanks for noting and reporting the issue.
You are correct, the ampersand symbol needs a correct HTML character
code, otherwise the XML parsers at least will fail on this.
I pushed a fix to the tree.
https://deb.li/zyFD
Once the next build of the website is finished the issue will be solved.
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Regards
Carsten Schoenert
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