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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-7694e8be73 Moderate: mingw-libxml2 Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent upgrade to mingw-libxml2 version 2.9.10 within the Fedora distribution resolves notable memory management concerns and mitigates the risk of unexpected crashes.
Update to 2.9.10 * Fix CVE-2019-19956, CVE-2019-20388 and CVE-2020-7595

Summary

MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.

Update to 2.9.10 * Fix CVE-2019-19956, CVE-2019-20388 and CVE-2020-7595

* Thu Apr 23 2020 David King - 2.9.10-1

- Update to 2.9.10

- Fix CVE-2019-19956 (#1788858)

- Fix CVE-2019-20388 (#1799738)

- Fix CVE-2020-7595 (#1799788)

[ 1 ] Bug #1788858 - CVE-2019-19956 mingw-libxml2: libxml2: There's a memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c that could result in a crash [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788858

[ 2 ] Bug #1799738 - CVE-2019-20388 mingw-libxml2: libxml2: memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1799738

[ 3 ] Bug #1799788 - CVE-2020-7595 mingw-libxml2: libxml2: infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in some end-of-file situations [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1799788

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

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 2.9.10
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library

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