DSA-5315 libxstream-java – security update

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XStream serializes Java objects to XML and back again. Versions prior to
1.4.15-3+deb11u2 may allow a remote attacker to terminate the application with
a stack overflow error, resulting in a denial of service only via manipulation
of the processed input stream. The attack uses the hash code implementation for
collections and maps to force recursive hash calculation causing a stack
overflow. This update handles the stack overflow and raises an
InputManipulationException instead.

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