Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0558 (xml-security)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0558: Updated xml-security packages fix CVE-2013-4517 
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Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:28:27 +0100
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MGASA-2014-0558 - Updated xml-security packages fix CVE-2013-4517

Publication date: 31 Dec 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0558.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2013-4517

Description:
Updated xml-security packages fixes security vulnerability:

Apache Santuario XML Security for Java before 1.5.6, when applying
Transforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
consumption) via crafted Document Type Definitions (DTDs), related to
signatures (CVE-2013-4517).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14485
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4517

SRPMS:
- 4/core/xml-security-1.5.7-1.mga4