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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-7b97e553ff DoS: Mingw-Xerces-C 3.2.1 Update

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade to mingw-xerces-c version 3.2.1 in Fedora 28 mitigates CVE-2017-12627, bolstering protection against denial-of-service attacks.
Update to 3.2.1 (CVE-2017-12627)

Summary

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of

C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the ability to

read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing,

generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. Xerces-C is

faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and associated standards (DOM

1.0, DOM 2.0. SAX 1.0, SAX 2.0, Namespaces).

Update to 3.2.1 (CVE-2017-12627)

* Tue Jul 24 2018 Pete Walter - 3.2.1-1

- Update to 3.2.1 (CVE-2017-12627)

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.1.4-5

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

* Thu Feb 8 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.1.4-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1551525 - CVE-2017-12627 xerces-c: Null pointer dereference while processing the path to DTD allows denial of service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551525

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-7b97e553ff' 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: 3.2.1
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: MingGW Windows validating XML parser

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