MGASA-2016-0101

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    MGASA-2016-0101

    Published: 7 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated exempi exiv2 packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: exempi contains code to protect against a denial-service-attack related to XML entity expansion ("billion laughs attack"), but it was not compiled into the Mageia package because BanAllEntityUsage was not defined when the package was compiled. This has been corrected by recompiling it with the BanAllEntityUsage macro defined. The exiv2 package contains a bundled copy of the same code and has also been recompiled with the macro defined.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0101.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17877, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178378.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: exempi

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.2.2-14.1.mga5

    Affected versions

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    Integrity
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