Fedora 20: libxml2 Security Update
Summary
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 sub nodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is
available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an
URI library.
Update Information:
fixes built in also added a couple of other entities related pacthes including a fix to CVE-2014-3660
Change Log
* Mon Mar 23 2015 Daniel Veillard
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1090976 - CVE-2014-0191 libxml2: external parameter entity loaded when entity substitution is disabled https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090976
Update Instructions
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 .