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Fedora 26: Security Update for perl-XML-LibXML - Critical Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling a significant memory leak vulnerability in perl-XML-LibXML, this revision improves both the safety and efficiency of Fedora 26.
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 26
Version: 2.0129
Release: 2.fc26
Summary: Perl interface to the libxml2 library

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