Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0350 (libxml2)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0350: libxml2-2.7.8-9.8.mga1
 (1/core), libxml2-2.7.8-14.20120229.4.mga2 (2/core) 
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Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:31:37 +0100
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MGASA-2012-0350
Date: 	November 30th, 2012
Affected releases: 	1, 2


Description:
Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability:

Heap-based buffer underflow, in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in
parser.c in libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted
entities in an XML document (CVE-2012-5134).


Updated Packages:
Mageia 1:
lib(64)xml2_2-2.7.8-9.8.mga1
lib(64)xml2-devel-2.7.8-9.8.mga1
libxml2-utils-2.7.8-9.8.mga1
libxml2-python-2.7.8-9.8.mga1

Mageia 2:
libxml2-utils-2.7.8-14.20120229.4.mga2
libxml2-python-2.7.8-14.20120229.4.mga2
lib(64)xml2_2-2.7.8-14.20120229.4.mga2
lib(64)xml2-devel-2.7.8-14.20120229.4.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5134
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1512.html
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8248
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...