[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: xerces-c-3.1.2-1.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-4226
2015-03-21 00:12:15
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Name        : xerces-c
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 3.1.2
Release     : 1.fc22
URL         : http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/
Summary     : Validating XML Parser
Description :
Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable
subset of C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the
ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for
parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML
documents. Xerces-C is faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and
associated standards: XML 1.0 (Third Edition), XML 1.1 (First
Edition), DOM Level 1, 2, 3 Core, DOM Level 2.0 Traversal and Range,
DOM Level 3.0 Load and Save, SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0, Namespaces in XML,
Namespaces in XML 1.1, XML Schema, XML Inclusions).

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Update Information:

Update to xerces-c 3.1.2, fixing CVE-2015-0252.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1199103 - CVE-2015-0252 xerces-c: crashes on malformed input
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199103
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