[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libxslt-1.1.27-2.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-15716
2012-10-09 17:16:21
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Name        : libxslt
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.1.27
Release     : 2.fc18
URL         : http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
Summary     : Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine
Description :
This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files
(or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation
mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27
installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine

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Update Information:

Fix a default namespace regression in 1.1.27
Upstream new release also including a number of security fixes
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #684386 - CVE-2011-1202 libxslt: Heap address leak in XLST
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684386
  [ 2 ] Bug #788826 - CVE-2011-3970 libxslt: Out-of-bounds read when parsing certain patterns
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788826
  [ 3 ] Bug #835982 - CVE-2012-2825 libxslt: DoS when reading unexpected DTD nodes in XSLT
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835982
  [ 4 ] Bug #852935 - CVE-2012-2871 libxslt: Heap-buffer overflow caused by bad cast in XSL transforms
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852935
  [ 5 ] Bug #852937 - CVE-2012-2870 libxslt: Use-after-free when processing an invalid XPath expression
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852937
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libxslt' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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