[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: libxml2-2.7.1-2.fc8
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-8582
2008-10-03 21:13:58
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 2.7.1
Release : 2.fc8
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 subnodes 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:
This is an urgent security fix for a bug newly introduced in libxml2-2.7.x
leading to CPU and memory exhaustion. See upstream bug report for further
details: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Oct 2 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 2.7.1-2.fc8
- fix a nasty bug in 2.7.x, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660
* Mon Sep 1 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 2.7.1-1.fc8
- upstream release of 2.7.1
- fix python serialization which was broken in 2.7.0
- upstream release of 2.7.0
- switch to XML 1.0 5th edition
- switch to RFC 3986 for URI parsing
- better entity handling
- option to remove hardcoded limitations in the parser
- more testing
- a new API to allocate entity nodes
- and lot of fixes and cleanups
* Mon Aug 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 2.6.31-2.fc8
- fix for entities recursion problem
- Resolve: rhbz#459712
* Fri Apr 11 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 2.6.32-1.fc8
- upstream release 2.6.32 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bugs fixed upstrea
* Fri Jan 11 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 2.6.31-1.fc8
- upstream release 2.6.31 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bug fixed upstream
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