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Fedora 25 Batik Update: CVE-2017-5662 Moderate XML Processing Risk

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A revision for Batik in Fedora remedies CVE-2017-5662 by implementing significant corrections in XML handling.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5662 ---- Add missing requires on xmlgraphics- commons

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 ---- Add missing requires on xmlgraphics-commons

[ 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.8
Release: 9.fc25
Summary: Scalable Vector Graphics for Java

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