[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libxslt-1.1.28-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-4507
2013-03-27 19:44:50
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Name        : libxslt
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.1.28
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
Summary     : Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine
Description :
This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files
(or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation
mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27
installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine

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Update Information:

Update to libxslt-1.1.28 to fix CVE-2012-6139 where the
library could crash on invalid key references in stylesheets
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov 21 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 1.1.28-1
- upstream release of libxslt-1.1.28
- a few bug fixes and cleanups
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #927580 - CVE-2012-6139 libxslt: two DoS issues fixed in 1.1.28 [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927580
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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