Source: xerces-c2
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for xerces-c2.

CVE-2008-4482[0]:
| The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent
| attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash)
| via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which
| triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML
| file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4482
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-4482

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