Re: CVE request: Perl XML::LibXML

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> XEE vulnerability in Perl's XML::LibXML
>
> The output of XEE-XML-LibXML-demo.pl should not contain external
> entities, but "expand_entities" is ignored.
>
> Using "$XML_DOC = XML::LibXML->load_xml" works as documented, using 
> $parser = XML::LibXML->new and $XML_DOC = $parser->load_xml does not.
>
> The vulnerability is fixed in version 2.0119.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-xml-libxml/commits/5962fd067580767777e94640b129ae8930a68a30
>
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0119/Changes

> LibXML.pm
>
> $new->{XML_LIBXML_PARSER_OPTIONS} = $self->{XML_LIBXML_PARSER_OPTIONS};

> 2.0119  2015-04-23
>     - Preserve unset options after a _clone() call (e.g: in load_xml()).
>         - This caused expand_entities(0) to not be preserved/etc.
>         - Thanks to Tilmann Haak from xing.com for the report.

Use CVE-2015-3451.

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