Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-9494 (xml-security-c)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: xml-security-c-1.5.1-5.fc15 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9494
2011-07-18 21:57:59
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Name        : xml-security-c
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.5.1
Release     : 5.fc15
URL         : http://santuario.apache.org/c/
Summary     : C++ Implementation of W3C security standards for XML
Description :
The xml-security-c library is a C++ implementation of the XML Digital Signature
specification. The library makes use of the Apache XML project's Xerces-C XML
Parser and Xalan-C XSLT processor. The latter is used for processing XPath and
XSLT transforms.

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Update Information:

Fix CVE-2011-2516: Apache Santuario XML Security for C++
contains buffer overflows signing or verifying with large keys.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul  8 2011 Antti Andreimann <Antti.Andreimann@mail.ee> - 1.5.1-5
- Backported a patch to fix CVE-2011-2516 (#719698)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #719698 - CVE-2011-2516 xml-security-c: Stack-based buffer overflows when creating or
verifying XML Signatures with RSA keys of sizes >= 8192 bits
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719698
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