[ MDVSA-2009:223-1 ] xerces-c

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Package : xerces-c
Date : December 4, 2009
Affected: 2008.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in xerces-c:

Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in
Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to
cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving
nested parentheses and invalid byte values in simply nested DTD
structures, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework
(CVE-2009-1885).

This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.

Update:

Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for
Corporate products.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-1885
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