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Fedora 24: BATIK Security Update Critical: CVE-2017-5662 XML Issue

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch released for Batik in Fedora 24 to fix vulnerability related to XML external entity handling.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5662

Summary

Batik is a Java(tm) technology based toolkit for applications that want

to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various

purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation.

Security fix for CVE-2017-5662

[ 1 ] Bug #1443592 - CVE-2017-5662 batik: XML external entity processing vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443592

su -c 'dnf upgrade batik' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.8
Release: 9.fc24
Summary: Scalable Vector Graphics for Java

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