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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-10000
2008-11-22 14:27:20
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 2.7.2
Release : 2.fc10
URL :
http://xmlsoft.org/
Summary : Library providing XML and HTML support
Description :
This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support
this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either
at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output
can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations.
In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation
to select subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is
available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an
URI library.
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Update Information:
Fixes a couple of security issues when overflowing text data size of buffer
size.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.2-2.fc10
- two patches for size overflows problems CVE-2008-4225 and CVE-2008-4226
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #470480 - CVE-2008-4225 libxml2: integer overflow leading to infinite loop in xmlBufferResize
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470480
[ 2 ] Bug #470466 - CVE-2008-4226 libxml2: integer overflow leading to memory corruption in xmlSAX2Characters
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470466
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available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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