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openSUSE Leap 15.1: openSUSE-SU-2020:0681-1 Moderate: libxml2 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant announcement for Fedora addresses several security flaws in the libxml2 library, which encompass issues such as excessive memory consumption and infinite loops.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-20388: Fixed a memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun (bsc#1161521).

- CVE-2019-19956: Fixed a memory leak (bsc#1159928).

- CVE-2020-7595: Fixed an infinite loop in an EOF situation (bsc#1161517).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-681=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libxml2-2-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-debugsource-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-devel-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-tools-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

python-libxml2-python-debugsource-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

python2-libxml2-python-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

python2-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

python3-libxml2-python-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

libxml2-devel-32bit-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

libxml2-doc-2.9.7-lp151.5.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19956.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20388.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-7595.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159928

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161517

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161521

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0681-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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