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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-13b4cae9df Critical: jackson-dataformat-xml XXE Risk

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Significant patch for jackson-dataformat-xml tackles XXE vulnerability in Fedora, boosting security measures and ensuring user protection.
Security fix for CVE-2016-3720

Summary

Data format extension for Jackson ()

to offer alternative support for serializing POJOs as XML and

deserializing XML as POJOs. Support implemented on top of Stax API

(javax.xml.stream), by implementing core Jackson Streaming API types

like JsonGenerator, JsonParser and JsonFactory. Some data-binding types

overridden as well (ObjectMapper sub-classed as XmlMapper).

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-3720

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix XXE attack jackson-dataformat-xml

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1328427 - CVE-2016-3720 jackson-dataformat-xml: XmlMapper is vulnerable to XXE attack https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328427

Update Instructions

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

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Name: jackson-dataformat-xml
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.6.3
Release: 3.fc24
URL: Summary : XML data binding extension for Jackson

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix XXE attack jackson-dataformat-xml

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