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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8332
2009-08-07 04:36:05
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Name : xerces-c27
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 2.7.0
Release : 8.fc11
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 ( DOM 1.0, DOM 2.0. SAX 1.0, SAX 2.0,
Namespaces).
Note that this package contains Xerces-C++ 2.7.0 for compatibility with
applications that cannot use a newer version.
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Update Information:
CVE-2009-1885
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 6 2009 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@gmail.com> 2.7.0-8
- Fix CVE-2009-1885
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.0-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #515515 - CVE-2009-1885 xerces-c, xerces-c27: Stack overflow when parsing recursive XML structures
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515
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