Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0178 (xerces-c)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0178: Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability 
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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:14:02 +0100
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MGASA-2018-0178 - Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Mar 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0178.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2017-12627

Description:
The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD
references, resulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing
the path to the DTD. The bug allows for a denial of service attack in
applications that allow DTD processing and do not prevent external DTD
usage, and could conceivably result in remote code execution
(CVE-2017-12627).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22779
- http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2017-12627.txt
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1...

SRPMS:
- 5/core/xerces-c-3.1.2-1.4.mga5