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TITLE:
Xerces-C++ XML DTD Structures Parsing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36201

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36201/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Xerces-C++, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite recursion error when
parsing simply nested DTD structures and can be exploited to cause a
crash via a specially crafted XML file.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen from the CROSS project
at Codenomicon Ltd, reported via CERT-FI

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apache:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488

CERT-FI:
http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html

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