Advisories » MGASA-2021-0034

Updated dom4j packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Jan 2021
Modification date: 17 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-10683

Description

A flaw was found in the dom4j library. By using the default SaxReader()
provided by Dom4J, external DTDs and External Entities are allowed, resulting
in a possible XXE (CVE-2020-10683).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25596
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2191
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10683

SRPMS

7/core

• dom4j-2.0.0-4.1.mga7