However upstream PyXML will still be affected Juraj Somorovsky reported that certain XML parsers/servers are affected by the same, or similar, flaw as the hash table collisions CPU usage denial of service. Sending a specially crafted message to an XML service can result in longer processing time, which could lead to a denial of service. It is reported that this attack on XML can be applied on different XML nodes (such as entities, element attributes, namespaces, various elements in the XML security, etc.). PyXML is written in Python and makes significant use of arrays. It is unclear if fixing the Python array hash DoS bug (Bz 750555) will completely address this issue however at first glance it would appear to be the case. In other words no action should be neccesary from upstream to correct this. Additionally our PyXML uses the system expat (from the spec file): # build PyXML with system expat # Make sure we don't use local one which is covered in bug: 787080
Packages that require PyXML: SOAPpy-0.11.6-11 subscription-manager-0.96.12-1
Statement: This issue affects the versions of xerces as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.