MGASA-2016-0088

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    MGASA-2016-0088

    Published: 2 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-0729

    Summary: Updated xerces-c packages fix CVE-2016-0729

    Details: Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability: The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overlows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse operation. The bugs allow for a denial of service attack in many applications by an unauthenticated attacker, and could conceivably result in remote code execution (CVE-2016-0729).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0088.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17820, http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2016-0729.txt

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xerces-c

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/xerces-c?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1.2-1.1.mga5

    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
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