Hello All:
This is a VOTE to release Apache Xalan-J 2.7.2-RC1 as 2.7.2
This is a bug fix release. As before, Xalan-J requires a minimum
of Java 1.3.
The Apache Xalan-J team is pleased to announce the Apache
Xalan-J 2.7.2 release!
Xalan-Java fully implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version
1.0 and the XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.
Changes in this version include:
Fixed Bugs:
- Fix for CVE-2014-0107 insufficient secure processing
When using FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING ("
http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing")
on a TransformerFactory, the output properties:
{
http://xml.apache.org/xalan}content-handler
{
http://xml.apache.org/xalan}entities
{
http://xml.apache.org/xslt}content-handler
{
http://xml.apache.org/xslt}entities
should be ignored (see
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops)
These properties can be used to load an arbitrary class or
access an arbitrary URL/resource so are problematic when secure
processing is desired.
<xsl:output xalan:content-handler="org.example.BadClass" ...
<xsl:output xalan:entities="
http://example.org/reallyLargeFile.bin"
...
These features could be used to load a class that had
undesirable side-effects or to load a large file and exhaust
memory, etc.
See XALANJ-2435.
- Upgrade to Xerces-J 2.11.0 and XML Commons External 1.4.01
The distributions contain upgraded versions of xercesImpl.jar
(Xerces-J 2.11.0) and xml-apis.jar (XML Commons External
1.4.01).
- XALANJ Jira bug fixes
XALANJ Jira bug fixes: 2435, 2580, 2546, 2581, 2582, 2583, 2473,
2495, 2493, 2424, 2446, 2447
You can also view the list in Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2424?jql=project%20%3D%20XALANJ%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.7.2%20ORDER%20BY%20due%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20created%20ASC
This VOTE is open for at least 72 hours until March 29 2014 at
15:00 PM EST.
The files:
https://people.apache.org/~ggregory/xalan/2.7.1-rc1/dist/
The tags:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xalan/java/tags/xalan-j_2_7_2-rc1
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xalan/test/tags/xalan-j_2_7_2-rc1
The docs:
https://people.apache.org/~ggregory/xalan/2.7.1-rc1/site/
Thank you,
Gary Gregory
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