[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: libxml2-2.9.8-4.fc28
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-3b782350ff
2018-08-07 01:13:44.522707
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 28
Version : 2.9.8
Release : 4.fc28
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:
Fix few CVEs
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 2 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.8-4
- Backport patches from upstream
* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.8-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jun 19 2018 Miro Hron��ok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.8-2
- Rebuilt for Python 3.7
* Tue Apr 3 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.8-1
- Update to 2.9.8
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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
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