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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8332
2009-08-07 04:36:05
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Name        : xerces-c27
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 2.7.0
Release     : 8.fc11
URL         : https://xerces.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:

CVE-2009-1885
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug  6 2009 Peter Lemenkov  2.7.0-8
- Fix CVE-2009-1885
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering  - 2.7.0-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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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 program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xerces-c27' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 11 Update: xerces-c27-2.7.0-8.fc11

August 25, 2009
CVE-2009-1885

Summary

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.

Update Information:

CVE-2009-1885

Change Log

* Thu Aug 6 2009 Peter Lemenkov 2.7.0-8 - Fix CVE-2009-1885 * Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.7.0-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

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

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xerces-c27' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : xerces-c27
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 2.7.0
Release : 8.fc11
URL : https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
Summary : Validating XML Parser

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