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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-08e01e9f2f
2024-05-23 01:08:07.997623
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Name        : libxml2
Product     : Fedora 40
Version     : 2.12.7
Release     : 1.fc40
URL         : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/wikis/home
Summary     : Library providing XML and HTML support
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.12.7
Fix CVE-2024-34459.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 16 2024 David King  - 2.12.7-1
- Update to 2.12.7 (#2280532)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #2280532 - CVE-2024-34459 libxml2: buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280532
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http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Fedora 40: libxml2 2024-08e01e9f2f Security Advisory Updates

May 23, 2024
Update to 2.12.7 Fix CVE-2024-34459.

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 Information:

Update to 2.12.7 Fix CVE-2024-34459.

Change Log

* Thu May 16 2024 David King - 2.12.7-1 - Update to 2.12.7 (#2280532)

References

[ 1 ] Bug #2280532 - CVE-2024-34459 libxml2: buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280532

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-08e01e9f2f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Severity
Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 2.12.7
Release : 1.fc40
URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/wikis/home
Summary : Library providing XML and HTML support

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