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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0692-1 Moderate: Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important patch for openSUSE Leap 15.3 targets significant libxml2 vulnerabilities and outlines installation instructions.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3518: Fixed a use after free in xinclude.c:xmlXIncludeDoProcess

(bsc#1185408).

- CVE-2021-3517: Fixed a heap based buffer overflow in

entities.c:xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1185410).

- CVE-2021-3516: Fixed a use after free in

entities.c:xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1185409).

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-692=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libxml2-2-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-debugsource-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-devel-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-tools-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

python-libxml2-python-debugsource-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

python2-libxml2-python-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

python2-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

python3-libxml2-python-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

libxml2-devel-32bit-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

libxml2-doc-2.9.7-lp152.10.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3516.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3517.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3518.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185408

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185409

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185410

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0692-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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