-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2018-e198cf4a64 2018-08-09 16:50:34.715516 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libxml2 Product : Fedora 27 Version : 2.9.8 Release : 4.fc27 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 sub nodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an URI library.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Fix few CVEs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 2 2018 Igor Gnatenko ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org - 2.9.8-4 - Backport patches from upstream * Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 2.9.8-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Jun 19 2018 Miro Hron��ok mhroncok@redhat.com - 2.9.8-2 - Rebuilt for Python 3.7 * Tue Apr 3 2018 Igor Gnatenko ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org - 2.9.8-1 - Update to 2.9.8 * Sat Feb 24 2018 Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com - 2.9.7-4 - Rebuild with new LDFLAGS from redhat-rpm-config * Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering releng@fedoraproject.org - 2.9.7-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Jan 30 2018 Igor Gnatenko ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org - 2.9.7-2 - Switch to %ldconfig_scriptlets * Wed Jan 24 2018 Igor Gnatenko ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org - 2.9.7-1 - Update to 2.9.7 - Cleanups in packaging * Tue Jan 9 2018 Iryna Shcherbina ishcherb@redhat.com - 2.9.5-3 - Update Python 2 dependency declarations to new packaging standards (See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1595986 - CVE-2018-14404 libxml2: NULL pointer dereference in xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() can allow attackers to cause a denial of service [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595986 [ 2 ] Bug #1565321 - CVE-2018-9251 libxml2: infinite loop in xz_decomp function in xzlib.c [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1565321 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-e198cf4a64' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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