Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12627  

The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD references, resulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing the path to the DTD. The bug allows for a denial of service attack in applications that allow DTD processing and do not prevent external DTD usage, and could conceivably result in remote code execution.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

The Xerces-C XML parser mishandles certain kinds of external DTD references, resulting in dereference of a NULL pointer while processing the path to the DTD. The bug allows for a denial of service attack in applications that allow DTD processing and do not prevent external DTD usage, and could conceivably result in remote code execution.

AVG-644 xerces-c 3.2.0-2 3.2.1-1 High Fixed

25 Mar 2018 ASA-201803-23 AVG-644 xerces-c High arbitrary code execution

https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2017-12627.txt