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Fedora 41: libxml2 2024-867a14de12 faces critical XXE vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A fix for libxml2 in Fedora 41 tackles a severe XXE vulnerability associated with CVE-2024-40896, safeguarding application security.
Update to 2.12.9 Fixes CVE-2024-40896.

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 2.12.9 Fixes CVE-2024-40896.

Change Log

* Tue Dec 24 2024 David King - 2.12.9-1 - Update to 2.12.9 (#2333939)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2333939 - CVE-2024-40896 libxml2: XXE vulnerability [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2333939

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-867a14de12' 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

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Name: libxml2
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 2.12.9
Release: 1.fc41
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Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support

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