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Mageia: 2019-0321 Moderate: Expat Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2019
Scroller Mageia
Revised expatriate arrangements tackle possible safety concern in Mageia related to XML manipulation.
It was discovered that Expat did not properly handle internal entities closing the doctype, potentially resulting in denial of service or information disclosure if a malformed XML ...

Summary

It was discovered that Expat did not properly handle internal entities closing the doctype, potentially resulting in denial of service or information disclosure if a malformed XML file is processed (CVE-2019-15903).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25661

- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15903

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service information disclosure expat mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/expat-2.2.7-1.1.mga7

Publication date: 07 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0321.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-15903

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service information disclosure expat mageia

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