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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2019-a3f67e2364 Moderate: Checkstyle DTD Loading Issue

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This modification addresses a security vulnerability in Checkstyle - it now prevents the automatic loading of external DTDs, thereby enhancing overall protection.
This update fixes security vulnerability - Checkstyle loads external DTDs by default

Summary

A tool for checking Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.

This update fixes security vulnerability - Checkstyle loads external DTDs by

default. Upstream issue: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6474

https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6478 References:

https://checkstyle.org/releasenotes.html#Release_8.18

* Tue Apr 2 2019 Mikolaj Izdebski - 8.0-4.1

- Do not load external DTDs by default

- Resolves: CVE-2019-9658

* Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 8.0-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1694857 - CVE-2019-9658 checkstyle: Loads external DTDs by default

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694857

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-a3f67e2364' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 8.0
Release: 4.1.fc28
Summary: Java source code checker

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