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Fedora 29: 2019-e4405b4c9f High: Checkstyle External DTD Load Issue

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch tackles a significant vulnerability in Checkstyle, fixing problems related to remote DTD retrieval in Fedora.
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

[ 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-e4405b4c9f' 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 29
Version: 8.0
Release: 4.1.fc29
Summary: Java source code checker

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