[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ocaml-xml-light-2.3-0.1.svn234.fc17
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-12500
2012-08-22 20:36:10
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Name : ocaml-xml-light
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 2.3
Release : 0.1.svn234.fc17
URL : http://tech.motion-twin.com/xmllight.html
Summary : Minimal XML parser and printer for OCaml
Description :
Xml-Light is a minimal XML parser & printer for OCaml. It provides
functions to parse an XML document into an OCaml data structure, work
with it, and print it back to an XML document. It support also DTD
parsing and checking, and is entirely written in OCaml, hence it does
not require additional C library.
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Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2012-3514.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Aug 21 2012 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 2.3-0.1.svn234
- Update to latest version (subversion release 234).
- Includes fix for CVE-2012-3514 - moderate impact hash table collisions
(resolves: rhbz#787890).
- Clean up the spec file and bring up to modern standards.
- Add tests.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #787890 - ocaml-xml-light: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787890
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