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openSUSE Leap 42.1 Security Advisory: Critical Expat Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Tackling significant vulnerabilities in expat for openSUSE Leap 42.1 through essential patches.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for expat fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2016-0718: Fix Expat XML parser that mishandles certain kinds of

malformed input documents. (bsc#979441)

- CVE-2015-1283: Fix multiple integer overflows. (bnc#980391) This update

was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important input issue openSUSE Leap expat fix

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-695=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

expat-2.1.0-17.1

expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-17.1

expat-debugsource-2.1.0-17.1

libexpat-devel-2.1.0-17.1

libexpat1-2.1.0-17.1

libexpat1-debuginfo-2.1.0-17.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

expat-debuginfo-32bit-2.1.0-17.1

libexpat-devel-32bit-2.1.0-17.1

libexpat1-32bit-2.1.0-17.1

libexpat1-debuginfo-32bit-2.1.0-17.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1283.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0718.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/979441

https://bugzilla.suse.com/980391

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1523-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory important input issue openSUSE Leap expat fix

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