Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-087
2004-02-25
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Name        : libxml2
Version     : 2.6.6
Release     : 3
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 subnodes 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:
 
Updated libxml2 packages are available to fix an overflow when parsing
the URI for remote resources.
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* Thu Feb 12 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 
- upstream release 2.6.6 see  NEWS · master · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
 
 
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This update can be downloaded from:
    
 
c46c9ba42ba7d27bfcf48899119a1d40  SRPMS/libxml2-2.6.6-3.src.rpm
d7a9dec974250e425d6052e0f648b6c5  i386/libxml2-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm
0758aa446c1a43d18bc016df35288806  i386/libxml2-devel-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm
07843af17c126497f4baa8d279c7d920  i386/libxml2-python-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm
ae7105805216615e6460c60be9c679da  i386/debug/libxml2-debuginfo-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm
 
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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Daniel

-- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://access.redhat.com veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit  Home · Wiki · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab  Daniel Veillard | Rpmfind RPM search engine  Rpmfind mirror -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com  fedora-announce-list Info Page

Fedora: libxml2 Buffer overflow vulnerability 2004-087

February 26, 2004
Updated libxml2 packages are available to fix an overflow when parsing the URI for remote resources.

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 subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is

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

URI library.

Update Information:

Updated libxml2 packages are available to fix an overflow when parsing the URI for remote resources. * Thu Feb 12 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>

- upstream release 2.6.6 see NEWS · master · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab


This update can be downloaded from:


c46c9ba42ba7d27bfcf48899119a1d40 SRPMS/libxml2-2.6.6-3.src.rpm d7a9dec974250e425d6052e0f648b6c5 i386/libxml2-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm 0758aa446c1a43d18bc016df35288806 i386/libxml2-devel-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm 07843af17c126497f4baa8d279c7d920 i386/libxml2-python-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm ae7105805216615e6460c60be9c679da i386/debug/libxml2-debuginfo-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

Daniel

-- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://access.redhat.com veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit Home · Wiki · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab Daniel Veillard | Rpmfind RPM search engine Rpmfind mirror -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com fedora-announce-list Info Page

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-087 2004-02-25 Name : libxml2 Version : 2.6.6 Release : 3 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 subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an URI library.

Update Instructions

Severity
Name : libxml2
Version : 2.6.6
Release : 3
Summary : Library providing XML and HTML support

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