File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.2761
<patchinfo incident="2761">
<issue id="979208" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2016-2099: xerces: use-after-free in Xerces 3.1.3</issue>
<issue id="985860" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: EMBARGOED: CVE-2016-4463: xerces-c: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed DTD</issue>
<issue id="2016-4463" tracker="cve" />
<issue id="2016-2099" tracker="cve" />
<category>security</category>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<packager>pjanouch</packager>
<description>xerces-c was updated to fix one security issue.
This security issue was fixed:
- CVE-2016-2099: Use-after-free vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ did not properly handle exceptions raised in the XMLReader class, which allowed context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via an invalid character in an XML document (bsc#979208).
- CVE-2016-4463: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser crashed on malformed DTD (bnc#985860).
</description>
<summary>Security update for xerces-c</summary>
</patchinfo>