MGASA-2019-0077 - Updated dom4j packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Feb 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0077.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-1000632

dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains an XML Injection vulnerability
in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an
attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection. This attack
appears to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements
in the XML document (CVE-2018-1000632).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23677
- - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000632

SRPMS:
- 6/core/dom4j-1.6.1-28.1.mga6

Mageia 2019-0077: dom4j security update

dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains an XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element

Summary

dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains an XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection. This attack appears to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the XML document (CVE-2018-1000632).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23677

- - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000632

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0077 - Updated dom4j packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/dom4j-1.6.1-28.1.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 14 Feb 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0077.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-1000632

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