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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-7773c53bc8 Moderate: mingw-libxml2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 32 has updated the mingw-libxml2 package to address the buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2020-24977. Users are encouraged to upgrade for better security.
Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot.

Summary

MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.

Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot.

* Wed Nov 11 2020 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.9.10-8

- Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot.

[ 1 ] Bug #1877788 - CVE-2020-24977 libxml2: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877788

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-7773c53bc8' 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 32
Version: 2.9.10
Release: 8.fc32
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Summary: MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library

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