Bug 1694857 (CVE-2019-9658)

Summary:	CVE-2019-9658 checkstyle: Loads external DTDs by default
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, edewata, greg.hellings, java-sig-commits, mizdebsk, nsantos, rob.myers, stewardship-sig
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-01 21:13:12 UTC

Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6474
https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/6478

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/6476

References:

https://checkstyle.org/releasenotes.html#Release_8.18

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-01 21:13:31 UTC

Created checkstyle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1694858]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-04-11 18:43:17 UTC

checkstyle-8.0-4.1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-04-12 01:16:19 UTC

checkstyle-8.0-4.1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:52:48 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.