opensuse-su-2021:1231-1
Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse
Published
2021-09-06 12:04
Modified
2021-09-06 12:04
Summary
Security update for xerces-c

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for xerces-c
Description of the patch
This update for xerces-c fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-1311: Fixed use-after-free inside XML parser during the scanning of external DTDs (bsc#1159552). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
Patchnames
openSUSE-2021-1231
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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