{"id":"MGASA-2018-0158","summary":"Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2017-12627","details":"Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability:\n\nThe Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD references, \nresulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing the path to the DTD. \nThe bug allows for a denial of service attack in applications that allow DTD \nprocessing and do not prevent external DTD usage, and could conceivably result \nin remote code execution. (CVE-2017-12627)\n","modified":"2026-02-04T02:57:43.731140Z","published":"2018-03-06T07:55:33Z","related":["CVE-2017-12627"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0158.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22677"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2017-12627.txt"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xerces-c","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/xerces-c?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1.4-2.1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0158.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}