Scientific Linux 6.x SLSA-2015:1419-1 Low: libxml2 DoS Threat

Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 18:11:09 +0000
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From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA Low: libxml2 on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Low: libxml2 security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1419-1
Issue Date: 2015-07-22
CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-1819
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A denial of service flaw was found in the way the libxml2 library parsed
certain XML files. An attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file
that, when parsed by an application using libxml2, could cause that
application to use an excessive amount of memory. (CVE-2015-1819)

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

This update also fixes the following bug:

This update fixes an error that occurred when running a test case for the
serialization of HTML documents.

The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update
to take effect.
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SL6
 x86_64
 libxml2-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-2.7.6-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
 libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.6-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
 libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
 libxml2-devel-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-devel-2.7.6-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
 libxml2-static-2.7.6-20.el6.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 libxml2-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-debuginfo-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-devel-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
 libxml2-static-2.7.6-20.el6.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team