{"id":"MGASA-2018-0178","summary":"Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability","details":"The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD\nreferences, resulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing\nthe path to the DTD. The bug allows for a denial of service attack in\napplications that allow DTD processing and do not prevent external DTD\nusage, and could conceivably result in remote code execution\n(CVE-2017-12627).\n","modified":"2026-02-04T04:15:59.913155Z","published":"2018-03-19T12:13:14Z","related":["CVE-2017-12627"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0178.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22779"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2017-12627.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":"3.1.2-1.4.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0178.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}