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Fedora 34: 2022-050c712ed7 Critical: libxml2 Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest enhancement for Fedora 34 regarding libxml2 addresses CVE-2022-23308, incorporating essential fixes that yield enhanced security and robustness.
Update to 2.9.13 Fix CVE-2022-23308

Summary

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support

to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support

this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either

at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output

can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations.

In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation

to select sub nodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is

available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an

URI library.

Update to 2.9.13 Fix CVE-2022-23308

* Mon Feb 21 2022 David King - 2.9.13-1

- Update to 2.9.13

[ 1 ] Bug #2056246 - libxml2-2.9.13 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056246

[ 2 ] Bug #2056914 - CVE-2022-23308 libxml2: Use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056914

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-050c712ed7' 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 34
Version: 2.9.13
Release: 1.fc34
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Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support

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