[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: libxml2-2.9.14-1.fc36
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-9136d646e4
2022-05-07 04:08:14.319189
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.9.14
Release : 1.fc36
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.
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Update Information:
Update to 2.9.14 Fix CVE-2022-29824: Integer overflow in xmlBuf and xmlBuffer
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ChangeLog:
* Mon May 2 2022 David King <amigadave(a)amigadave.com> - 2.9.14-1
- Update to 2.9.14 (#2080961)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2080961 - libxml2-2.9.14 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2080961
[ 2 ] Bug #2082277 - CVE-2022-29824 libxml2: integer overflows in xmlBuf and xmlBuffer
lead to out-of-bounds write [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2082277
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