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Divan Mostert commented on XERCESJ-1679:
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Hi Michael,
I'm with Mark on this one. What is keeping you from releasing v2.12.0?
We also have to satisfy compliance requirements and having 2.12.0 would make a
lot of pain go away.
Looking forward to your reply.
Regards
Divan
> xercesImpl: Security threat CVE-2013-4002
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: XERCESJ-1679
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1679
> Project: Xerces2-J
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.4.0, 2.11.0
> Reporter: Mark Symons
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.12.0
>
>
> CVE-2013-4002 is a CVE that implicates Java... but was later realised to
> really be caused by Xerces.
> This is picked up as a "Security-High" vulnerability by Sonatype Nexus IQ
> analysis, who provide the following background info:
> {quote}
> h3.Description from CVE
> Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in IBM Java
> 5.0 before 5.0 SR16-FP3, 6 before 6 SR14, 6.0.1 before 6.0.1 SR6, and 7
> before 7 SR5 allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown
> vectors.
> h3.Explanation
> A flaw found in the way Xerces handles the processing of XML declarations
> allows for a Denial of service(DOS) attack while the server application
> processes the XML supplied by the remote user. Xerces is used as the built-in
> XML parser for certain versions of Java, hence the Java Runtime Environment
> was implicated in the CVE description. If this component showed up on a scan,
> then it is not because of the Java Runtime Environment.
> h3.Detection
> You are vulnerable if your application uses Xerces to parse untrusted and/or
> user-created XML.
> h3.Recommendation
> There is no non vulnerable version of this component at the time of this
> writing, but a fix was committed to the SVN repository. However, the last
> release was in 2013. Consider updating to the latest Java and switching to
> JAXP which is now part of the official JDK as of version 1.6
> h3.Root Cause
> xercesImpl-2.11.0.jar <= XMLScanner.class : [, 2.12)
> {quote}
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