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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-0729: Xerces-C++: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-0729: Xerces-C++: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in (1) internal/XMLReader.cpp, (2) util/XMLURL.cpp, and (3) util/XMLUri.cpp in the XML Parser library in Apache Xerces-C before 3.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault or memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted document.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-xerces-c

References

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