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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-51ce232320
2019-02-13 02:45:39.817303
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Name : xerces-c27
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 2.7.0
Release : 28.fc29
URL :
http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/
Summary : Validating XML Parser
Description :
Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++.
Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write
XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating,
and validating XML documents. Xerces-C is faithful to the XML 1.0
recommendation and associated standards ( DOM 1.0, DOM 2.0. SAX 1.0, SAX 2.0,
Namespaces).
Note that this package contains Xerces-C++ 2.7.0 for compatibility with
applications that cannot use a newer version.
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Update Information:
Fixes for CVE-2016-4463 and CVE-2017-12627.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 8 2018 Xavier Bachelot <xavier(a)bachelot.org> - 2.7.0-28
- Clean up spec.
- Add patch for CVE-2016-4463 (RHBZ#1351469).
- Add patch for CVE-2017-12627 (RHBZ#1551526).
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1551526 - CVE-2017-12627 xerces-c27: xerces-c: Null pointer dereference while
processing the path to DTD allows denial of service [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551526
[ 2 ] Bug #1351469 - CVE-2016-4463 xerces-c27: xerces-c: Stack overflow when parsing
deeply nested DTD [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351469
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