Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0088 (xerces-c)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0088: Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2016-0729 
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Wed, 2 Mar 2016 19:29:20 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0088 - Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2016-0729

Publication date: 02 Mar 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0088.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-0729

Description:
Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability:

The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents,
resulting in buffer overlows during processing and error reporting. The
overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during
a parse operation. The bugs allow for a denial of service attack in many
applications by an unauthenticated attacker, and could conceivably result in
remote code execution (CVE-2016-0729).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17820
- http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2016-0729.txt
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0729

SRPMS:
- 5/core/xerces-c-3.1.2-1.1.mga5