Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0253 (pdfbox)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0253: Updated pdfbox packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:34:31 +0200
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MGASA-2016-0253 - Updated pdfbox packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Jul 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0253.html

Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-2175

Description:
Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 does not properly initialize the XML parsers,
which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity
(XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF (CVE-2016-2175).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18558

- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/27/1

- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3606

- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2175


SRPMS:
- 5/core/pdfbox-1.8.7-1.1.mga5