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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-8a02b5c102 Low: Perl-XML-Parser Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses a memory management flaw in perl-XML-LibXML for Fedora, enhancing the security of XML data processing.
This release fixes a use-after-free in replaceChild() call.

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.

This release fixes a use-after-free in replaceChild() call.

[ 1 ] Bug #1470204 - CVE-2017-10672 perl-XML-LibXML: Use-after-free by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470204

su -c 'dnf upgrade perl-XML-LibXML' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.0128
Release: 2.fc24
Summary: Perl interface to the libxml2 library

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