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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2019:1283-1 Low: xerces-c Null Pointer Dereference

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An updated version of xerces-c has been launched to rectify the security flaw CVE-2017-12627 in openSUSE.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for xerces-c fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2017-12627: Processing of external DTD paths could have resulted in

a null pointer dereference under certain conditions (bsc#1083630)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-1283=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

libxerces-c-3_1-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

libxerces-c-devel-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

xerces-c-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

xerces-c-debugsource-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

xerces-c-doc-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-debuginfo-3.1.4-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12627.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083630

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1283-1
Rating: low
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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