-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8582 2008-10-03 21:13:58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu Oct 2 2008 Daniel Veillard veillard@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@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@redhat.com 2.6.31-2.fc8 - fix for entities recursion problem - Resolve: rhbz#459712 * Fri Apr 11 2008 Daniel Veillard veillard@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@redhat.com 2.6.31-1.fc8 - upstream release 2.6.31 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html - many bug fixed upstream --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxml2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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