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[GHSA-6hvf-xvwm-vrw4] XMLTooling Library Incorrectly Handles Some Exceptions #2509

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  • Added additional references and source code location
  • Removed affected ecosystem information (wrong ecosystem/unsupported)

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The CVE concerns the C++ version of the xmltooling library, not the Java library.

Per the advisory (https://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20190311.txt), we can trace back the commit and tickets here:

Where we can see the actual component is "XMLTooling - C++" - not the Java library. Version 3.0.4 does not exist in the Java library - releases stop at 1.4.6:

@github-actions github-actions bot changed the base branch from main to njuneau-coveo/advisory-improvement-2509 July 20, 2023 21:11
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"package": {
"ecosystem": "Maven",
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Target language is C++ - not quite sure what would be the proper ecosystem/name combination in the present situation.

@advisory-database advisory-database bot merged commit c172562 into njuneau-coveo/advisory-improvement-2509 Jul 31, 2023
@advisory-database advisory-database bot deleted the njuneau-coveo-GHSA-6hvf-xvwm-vrw4 branch July 31, 2023 20:31
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