-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-935f62c3d9 2020-11-14 01:11:09.444645 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libxml2 Product : Fedora 33 Version : 2.9.10 Release : 8.fc33 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:
Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Nov 11 2020 Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com - 2.9.10-8 - Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1877788 - CVE-2020-24977 libxml2: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877788 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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