GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-243

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published July 5, 2016

The Xerces-C XML parser fails to successfully parse a DTD that is deeply nested, and this causes a stack overflow, which makes a denial of service attack against many applications possible by an unauthenticated attacker (CVE-2016-4464).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	xerces-c	0 (affected), 3.1.2-1.3.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2016-4464

References

Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability

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