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xerces-c27: stack consumption vulnerability

Package(s):xerces-c27 CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1885
Created:August 25, 2009 Updated:December 4, 2009
Description: From the CVE entry: Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:223-1 2009-12-04
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:014 2009-09-01
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:223 2009-08-30
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8345 2009-08-07
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8350 2009-08-07
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8332 2009-08-07
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8305 2009-08-07
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