Name : libxml2 Product : Fedora 23 Version : 2.9.3 Release : 1.fc23 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.
Very large set of security issues for libxml2 and a bunch of bug fixes too#CVE-2015-8242 #CVE-2015-7500 #CVE-2015-7499 #CVE-2015-5312 #CVE-2015-7498 #CVE-2015-7497 #CVE-2015-1819 #CVE-2015-7941 #CVE-2015-7942 #CVE-2015-8035 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1211278 - CVE-2015-1819 libxml2: denial of service processing a crafted XML document https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211278 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
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 https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
