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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-9773 (libxml2)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-9773 2008-11-19 13:18:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxml2 Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.7.2 Release : 2.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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes a couple of security issues when overflowing text data size of buffer size. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Nov 12 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.2-2.fc9 - two patches for size overflows problems CVE-2008-4225 and CVE-2008-4226 * Tue Oct 7 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.2-1.fc9 - new release 2.7.2 - Fixes the known problems in 2.7.1 - increase the set of options when saving documents * Thu Oct 2 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.1-2.fc9 - fix a nasty bug in 2.7.x, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660 * Mon Sep 1 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.1-1.fc9 - upstream release of 2.7.1 - fix python serialization which was broken in 2.7.0 - upstream release of 2.7.0 - switch to XML 1.0 5th edition - switch to RFC 3986 for URI parsing - better entity handling - option to remove hardcoded limitations in the parser - more testing - a new API to allocate entity nodes - and lot of fixes and cleanups * Mon Aug 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.32-3.fc9 - fix for entities recursion problem - Resolve: rhbz#459713 * Thu May 15 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.32-2.fc9 - try to fix multiarch problems like #440206 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #470480 - CVE-2008-4225 libxml2: integer overflow leading to infinite loop in xmlBufferResize https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470480 [ 2 ] Bug #470466 - CVE-2008-4226 libxml2: integer overflow leading to memory corruption in xmlSAX2Characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470466 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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... (Log in to post comments)
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