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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-be489044df Critical: Mingw-Libxml2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 33 has released an update for mingw-libxml2 to address a critical buffer overflow vulnerability. Essential details regarding the security patch and update specifics have been provided.
Add fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788, RHBZ#1877789).

Summary

MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.

Add fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788, RHBZ#1877789).

* Fri Sep 11 2020 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.9.10-7

- Add fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788, RHBZ#1877789).

[ 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-be489044df' 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 33
Version: 2.9.10
Release: 3.fc33
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Summary: MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library

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