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Fedora: 2016-6b977c4737 moderate: php-htmLawed HTML Processing Issue

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Strengthen your Fedora 23 defenses by applying the php-htmLawed patch that tackles significant flaws in HTML processing.
**Version 1.1.21** - 27 February 2016

Summary

PHP code to purify and filter HTML

* make HTML markup in text secure and standard-compliant

* process text for use in HTML, XHTML or XML documents

* restrict HTML elements, attributes or URL protocols

using black or white-lists

* balance tags, check element nesting, transform deprecated

attributes and tags, make relative URLs absolute, etc.

* fast, highly customizable, well-documented

* single, 48 kb file

* simple HTML Tidy alternative

* free and licensed under LGPL v3 and GPL v2+

* use to filter, secure and sanitize HTML in blog comments or

forum posts, generate XML-compatible feed items from web-page

excerpts, convert HTML to XHTML, pretty-print HTML, scrape

web-pages, reduce spam, remove XSS code, etc.

Update Information:

**Version 1.1.21** - 27 February 2016. * Improvement and security fix in transforming 'font' element.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security patch HTML processing php-htmLawed

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-6b977c4737 2016-03-11 09:31:28.305942
Name : php-htmLawed Product : Fedora 23 Version : 1.1.21 Release : 1.fc23 URL : http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/ Summary : PHP code to purify and filter HTML Description : PHP code to purify and filter HTML
* make HTML markup in text secure and standard-compliant * process text for use in HTML, XHTML or XML documents * restrict HTML elements, attributes or URL protocols using black or white-lists * balance tags, check element nesting, transform deprecated attributes and tags, make relative URLs absolute, etc. * fast, highly customizable, well-documented * single, 48 kb file * simple HTML Tidy alternative * free and licensed under LGPL v3 and GPL v2+ * use to filter, secure and sanitize HTML in blog comments or forum posts, generate XML-compatible feed items from web-page excerpts, convert HTML to XHTML, pretty-print HTML, scrape web-pages, reduce spam, remove XSS code, etc.

Update Instructions

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

Name: php-htmLawed
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.1.21
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/
Summary: PHP code to purify and filter HTML

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security patch HTML processing php-htmLawed

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