CVE-2014-3529: Entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

September 4, 2014 (updated August 28, 2017)

The OPC SAX setup in this package allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an OpenXML file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2014-3529
issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56164

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