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Fedora 11: 2009-8580 Moderate: Libxml2 Parsing Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2009
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The recent update features a pair of patches targeting libxml2 parsing vulnerabilities related to CVE-2009-2414 and CVE-2009-2416.
two patches for parsing problems raised by Ficora

Summary

MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.

Update Information:

two patches for parsing problems raised by Ficora

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security advisory update Fedora moderate severity libxml2 parsing issue minGW

Change Log

* Mon Aug 10 2009 Daniel Veillard - 2.7.3-2 - two patches for parsing problems CVE-2009-2414 and CVE-2009-2416 * Mon May 4 2009 Erik van Pienbroek - 2.7.3-1 - Update to 2.7.3 * Fri Apr 3 2009 Erik van Pienbroek - 2.7.2-9 - Fixed %defattr line - Added -static subpackage. Applications which want to link against this static library needs to add -DLIBXML_STATIC to the CFLAGS - This package shouldn't own %{_mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig

References


[ 1 ] Bug #515195 - CVE-2009-2414 libxml, libxml2: Stack overflow by parsing root XML element DTD definition https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195 [ 2 ] Bug #515205 - CVE-2009-2416 libxml, libxml2: Pointer use-after-free flaws by parsing Notation and Enumeration attribute types https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515205

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw32-libxml2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw32-libxml2
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.7.3
Release: 2.fc11
URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/wikis/home
Summary: MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library

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security advisory update Fedora moderate severity libxml2 parsing issue minGW

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