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Fedora 7.3 FLSA:1324 Critical: Libxml2 Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2004
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The latest libxml2 patch tackles a severe buffer overflow vulnerability in Fedora's handling of external resources. Users are advised to update promptly.
Updated libxml2 packages that fix an overflow when parsing remote resources are now available.

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security advisory security issue update buffer overflow Fedora libxml2

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CVE -CVE-2004-0110

Re: [xml] Namespace declaration parent, doc: also broken?



9. Contact:

The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at .org



- -- Jesse Keating RHCE ( ) Fedora Legacy Team ( .org) GPG Public Key ( )

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