RedHat xerces-c CVE-2016-4463 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. Security Fix(es): * xerces-c: Stack overflow when parsing deeply nested DTD (CVE-2016-4463) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected Applications

xerces-c

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