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Debian: 2015-04-30 Moderate: gcc-multilib Update for Security

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2015
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A patch for perl-XML-LibXML in Fedora tackles a security vulnerability, reinforcing the safety and dependability of XML interpretation.
Security fix for

Summary

This module implements a Perl interface to the GNOME libxml2 library

which provides interfaces for parsing and manipulating XML files. This

module allows Perl programmers to make use of the highly capable

validating XML parser and the high performance DOM implementation.

Update Information:

Security fix for

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Fedora perl module XML parser

Change Log

* Wed Apr 29 2015 Jitka Plesnikova - 1:2.0119-1 - 2.0119 bump - Fixed security bz#1216114

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1216112 - CVE-2015-3451 perl-XML-LibXML: "expand_entities" option was not preserved under some circumstances https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216112

Update Instructions

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

Name: perl-XML-LibXML
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 2.0119
Release: 1.fc20
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/XML-LibXML
Summary: Perl interface to the libxml2 library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Fedora perl module XML parser

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