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

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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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