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https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_8795.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: xerces-c security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:8795-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8795
Issue date:         2024-11-05
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-37536
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Summary: 

An update for xerces-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

* xerces-c: An integer overflow issue that allows remote attackers to cause out-of-bound access via HTTP request (CVE-2023-37536)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2023-37536

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2243426