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SUSE: 2022:2835-1 Critical Security Updates for libxml2 Released

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Container Advisory responds to vulnerabilities in libxml2, incorporating several critical patches within this significant enhancement.
The container suse/sle15 was updated

Summary

Advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2022:3871-1 Released: Fri Nov 4 13:26:29 2022 Summary: Security update for libxml2 Type: security Severity: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update XSS important integer overflow suse libxml2

References

References : 1201978 1204366 1204367 CVE-2016-3709 CVE-2022-40303 CVE-2022-40304

1201978,1204366,1204367,CVE-2016-3709,CVE-2022-40303,CVE-2022-40304

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-3709: Fixed possible XSS vulnerability (bsc#1201978).

- CVE-2022-40303: Fixed integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE (bsc#1204366).

- CVE-2022-40304: Fixed dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles (bsc#1204367).

The following package changes have been done:

- libxml2-2-2.9.7-150000.3.51.1 updated

Severity
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Container Advisory ID : SUSE-CU-2022:2835-1
Container Tags : suse/sle15:15.2 , suse/sle15:15.2.9.5.218
Container Release : 9.5.218
Severity : important
Type : security

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update XSS important integer overflow suse libxml2

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