openSUSE Security Update: Security update for xerces-c ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2232-1 Rating: moderate References: #979208 #985860 Cross-References: CVE-2016-2099 CVE-2016-4463 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. 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). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1046=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64): libxerces-c-3_1-3.1.1-19.1 libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo-3.1.1-19.1 libxerces-c-devel-3.1.1-19.1 xerces-c-3.1.1-19.1 xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-19.1 xerces-c-debugsource-3.1.1-19.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64): libxerces-c-3_1-32bit-3.1.1-19.1 libxerces-c-3_1-debuginfo-32bit-3.1.1-19.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2099.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4463.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/979208 https://bugzilla.suse.com/985860