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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@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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