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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-193

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-193
Posted Oct 3, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-193 - A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU.

tags | advisory, remote
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2013-4002
SHA-256 | 7a7ad3026145d65eb92f2aa82fa23a5c4dd3b11d5cb4dcfc8ebbe17115033a9d

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-193

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:193
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : xerces-j2
Date : October 1, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled
XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with
a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name
that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that
application to use an excessive amount of CPU (CVE-2013-4002).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4002
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1319.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
52bdd3a413234b883bc99ac480d00ce4 mbs1/x86_64/xerces-j2-2.11.0-7.1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
de543be77e3afa9c7cbedbc3d50881ff mbs1/x86_64/xerces-j2-demo-2.11.0-7.1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
d44aa2df7aa370ef800bfe8699bce684 mbs1/x86_64/xerces-j2-javadoc-2.11.0-7.1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
4d9941ee6465984e781c4b668b90e438 mbs1/SRPMS/xerces-j2-2.11.0-7.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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