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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2023-f6a8bbe365
2023-12-31 00:55:02.285688
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Name : xerces-c
Product : Fedora EPEL 8
Version : 3.2.5
Release : 1.el8
URL :
http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/
Summary : Validating XML Parser
Description :
Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable
subset of C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the
ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for
parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML
documents. Xerces-C is faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and
associated standards: XML 1.0 (Third Edition), XML 1.1 (First
Edition), DOM Level 1, 2, 3 Core, DOM Level 2.0 Traversal and Range,
DOM Level 3.0 Load and Save, SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0, Namespaces in XML,
Namespaces in XML 1.1, XML Schema, XML Inclusions).
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Update Information:
Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 22 2023 Kalev Lember <klember(a)redhat.com> - 3.2.5-1
- Update to 3.2.5, fixing CVE-2018-1311 and CVE-2023-37536
* Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.3-9
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jan 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.3-8
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jul 23 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.3-7
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jan 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.3-6
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1788472 - CVE-2018-1311 xerces-c: XML parser contains a use-after-free error
triggered during the scanning of external DTDs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788472
[ 2 ] Bug #2243426 - CVE-2023-37536 xerces-c: An integer overflow issue that allows
remote attackers to cause out-of-bound access via HTTP request
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243426
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update xerces-c' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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