Medium: xerces-j2

Issue Overview:

A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU.

Affected Packages:

xerces-j2

Issue Correction:
Run yum update xerces-j2 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    xerces-j2-javadoc-apis-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
    xerces-j2-javadoc-xni-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
    xerces-j2-javadoc-other-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
    xerces-j2-demo-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
    xerces-j2-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
    xerces-j2-scripts-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
    xerces-j2-javadoc-impl-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    xerces-j2-2.7.1-12.7.19.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-4002

Mitre: CVE-2013-4002