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Mageia: 2019-0077 Urgent: dom4j XML Injection Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent upgrades to dom4j in Mageia have addressed vulnerabilities related to XML injection. For in-depth details about MGASA-2019-0077 and how to enhance your security, explore further.
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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000632

Resolution

SRPMS

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

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

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