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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-7856 (libxml)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-7856 2011-06-03 05:04:03 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxml Product : Fedora 14 Version : 1.8.17 Release : 27.fc14 URL : http://veillard.com/XML/ Summary : Old XML library for Gnome-1 application compatibility Description : This library allows old Gnome-1 applications to manipulate XML files. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update addresses CVE-2011-1944 (heap-based buffer overflow by adding a new namespace node to an existing nodeset or merging nodesets). It is described in detail at http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/05/libxml-vul... It also fixes the broken xpath implementation, which was crashing in the regression test suite on 32-bit architectures and failing some of the tests on all architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jun 3 2011 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1:1.8.17-27 - fix segfault and regressions in xpath tests - use a patch rather than iconv to fix the ChangeLog encoding * Thu Jun 2 2011 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1:1.8.17-26 - add patch for CVE-2011-1944 (#709751) - add %check section and run regression tests (note that diffs appearing in the output do not cause the build to fail) - nobody else likes macros for commands * Tue Feb 8 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:1.8.17-25 - rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #709747 - CVE-2011-1944 libxml, libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow by adding new namespace node to an existing nodeset or merging nodesets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709747 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxml' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-... (Log in to post comments)
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