{"id":"MGASA-2016-0088","summary":"Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2016-0729","details":"Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability:\n\nThe Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents,\nresulting in buffer overlows during processing and error reporting. The\noverflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during\na parse operation. The bugs allow for a denial of service attack in many\napplications by an unauthenticated attacker, and could conceivably result in\nremote code execution (CVE-2016-0729).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:26:30.605197679Z","published":"2016-03-02T18:28:46Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-0729"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0088.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17820"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2016-0729.txt"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xerces-c","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/xerces-c?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1.2-1.1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0088.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}