MGASA-2016-0243

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    MGASA-2016-0243

    Published: 5 Jul 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-4464

    Summary: Updated xerces-c packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: The Xerces-C XML parser fails to successfully parse a DTD that is deeply nested, and this causes a stack overflow, which makes a denial of service attack against many applications possible by an unauthenticated attacker (CVE-2016-4464).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0243.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18818, http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2016-4463.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 -3.1.2-1.3.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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