Description
Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.7 do not properly process inline DTD declarations when DTD is not entirely disabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory errors) via a crafted XML file.
Remediation
References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162015.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162017.html
http://pivotal.io/security/cve-2015-3192
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1592.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1593.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2036.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90853
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036587
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1218
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1219
https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13136
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00012.html
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