Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0158 (xerces-c)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0158: Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2017-12627 
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Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:56:16 +0100
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MGASA-2018-0158 - Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2017-12627

Publication date: 06 Mar 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0158.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2017-12627

Description:
Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability:

The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD references, 
resulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing the path to the DTD. 
The bug allows for a denial of service attack in applications that allow DTD 
processing and do not prevent external DTD usage, and could conceivably result 
in remote code execution. (CVE-2017-12627)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22677
- http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2017-12627.txt
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1...

SRPMS:
- 6/core/xerces-c-3.1.4-2.1.mga6