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Fedora 38: 2023-52ba628e03 critical: xerces-c use-after-free

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for Xerces-C addresses use-after-free issues and protects against expanding cyber threats in Fedora 38.
Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536

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: XML 1.0 (Third Edition), XML 1.1 (First

Edition), DOM Level 1, 2, 3 Core, DOM Level 2.0 Traversal and Range,

DOM Level 3.0 Load and Save, SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0, Namespaces in XML,

Namespaces in XML 1.1, XML Schema, XML Inclusions).

Update Information:

Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update integer overflow use-after-free xml parser

Change Log

* Fri Dec 22 2023 Kalev Lember - 3.2.5-1 - Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536 * Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.2.3-9 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1788472 - CVE-2018-1311 xerces-c: XML parser contains a use-after-free error triggered during the scanning of external DTDs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788472 [ 2 ] Bug #2243426 - CVE-2023-37536 xerces-c: An integer overflow issue that allows remote attackers to cause out-of-bound access via HTTP request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243426

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-52ba628e03' 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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Name: xerces-c
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 3.2.5
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
Summary: Validating XML Parser

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update integer overflow use-after-free xml parser

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