MGASA-2015-0136

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    MGASA-2015-0136

    Published: 9 Apr 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-0252

    Summary: Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability: Anton Rager and Jonathan Brossard from the Salesforce.com Product Security Team and Ben Laurie of Google discovered a denial of service vulnerability in xerces-c. The parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in a segmentation fault during a parse operation. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using the xerces-c library to crash (CVE-2015-0252).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0136.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15538, http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2015-0252.txt, https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3199

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xerces-c

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/xerces-c?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.2-1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High