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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0252
2009-08-10 20:17:45
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Name : xerces-c
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 2.7.0
Release : 8.el5
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).
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Update Information:
CVE-2009-1885
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #515515 - CVE-2009-1885 xerces-c, xerces-c27: Stack overflow when parsing
recursive XML structures
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515
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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 "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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