CVE-2017-12627

In Apache Xerces-C XML Parser library before 3.2.1, processing of external DTD paths can result in a null pointer dereference under certain conditions.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG and MRG-Messaging are currently in Maintenance phase. This issue has been rated as having Moderate security impact, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future releases of MRG or MRG-Messaging. For more information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification and the Life Cycle and Update Policies:

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The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Applications should strongly consider blocking remote entity resolution and/or outright disabling of DTD processing in light of the continued identification of bugs in this area of the library.