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libxml2: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CVE-2010-4494
Created:December 27, 2010 Updated:April 15, 2011
Description: From the Debian advisory:

Yang Dingning discovered a double free in libxml's Xpath processing, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Alerts:
Scientific Linux SL-libx-20111206 2011-12-06
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1749-03 2011-12-06
Gentoo 201110-26 2011-10-26
Fedora FEDORA-2011-2699 2011-03-05
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:005 2011-04-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0255-1 2011-03-31
Fedora FEDORA-2011-2697 2011-03-05
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:260 2010-12-29
Debian DSA-2137-1 2010-12-26
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0217-01 2013-01-31
CentOS CESA-2013:0217 2013-02-01
Oracle ELSA-2013-0217 2013-02-01
Scientific Linux SL-ming-20130201 2013-02-01
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