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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7395 (libxml2)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: libxml2-2.6.32-3.fc9
Date:  Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:04:24 +0000
Message-ID:  <20080910070424.1AE282E0023@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7395 2008-09-05 10:39:05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxml2 Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.6.32 Release : 3.fc9 URL : http://xmlsoft.org/ Summary : Library providing XML and HTML support Description : This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations. In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation to select subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an URI library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Aug 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.31-3.fc9 - fix for entities recursion problem - Resolve: rhbz#459713 * Thu May 15 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.31-2.fc9 - try to fix multiarch problems like #440206 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #458086 - CVE-2008-3281 libxml2 denial of service https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxml2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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