exempi contains code to protect against a denial-service-attack related to XML entity expansion ("billion laughs attack"), but it is not compiled into the Fedora package because BanAllEntityUsage is not defined when the package is compiled.
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Still present in rawhide.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle. Changing version to '25'.
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But FWIW, I think this has been fixed in all current Fedoras since the commit fixing this was added in 2013
Right, it should had been already fixed at the time Florian reopened this. Here is the commit: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exempi/c/1645fcaf3c35245e4857562cadc15b74c8f69fa7 Here is the build log of exempi-2.3.0-1.fc25: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//vol/fedora_koji_archive01/packages/exempi/2.3.0/1.fc25/data/logs/x86_64/build.log I can see -DBanAllEntityUsage=1 in CPPFLAGS. Florian, can I close this?
Not sure about the exact timeline here (the NEWS file mentions a BanAllEntityUsage fix for 2017), but I agree that the flag is set during current Fedora builds.