-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2023-f6a8bbe365 2023-12-31 00:55:02.285688 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : xerces-c Product : Fedora EPEL 8 Version : 3.2.5 Release : 1.el8 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: XML 1.0 (Third Edition), XML 1.1 (First Edition), DOM Level 1, 2, 3 Core, DOM Level 2.0 Traversal and Range, DOM Level 3.0 Load and Save, SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0, Namespaces in XML, Namespaces in XML 1.1, XML Schema, XML Inclusions).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 22 2023 Kalev Lember klember@redhat.com - 3.2.5-1 - Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536 * Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 3.2.3-9 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jan 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 3.2.3-8 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jul 23 2022 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 3.2.3-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jan 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 3.2.3-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1788472 - CVE-2018-1311 xerces-c: XML parser contains a use-after-free error triggered during the scanning of external DTDs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788472 [ 2 ] Bug #2243426 - CVE-2023-37536 xerces-c: An integer overflow issue that allows remote attackers to cause out-of-bound access via HTTP request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243426 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update xerces-c' at the command line. For more information, refer to "YUM", available at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7%5C /html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
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