I guess, a vulnerability issue was reported by community some time ago
related to XML parsing.

Here's some information about this:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6928
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?revision=781488&view=revision

>From these news items, it seems that Xerces-J was not affected by
this. Rather, Xerces-C was affected, and a patch for this is available
as reported at the above links.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Michael Glavassevich
<mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Atul,
>
> Xerces-J 1.4.3 is rather ancient. This release occurred before I arrived
> here so couldn't tell you what issues it may have had. I wouldn't assume the
> most recent report against Xerces 2.x would apply since 1.4.x is a
> completely different codebase and may never have had that problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Glavassevich
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com
> E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org



-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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