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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-a6b59d8f78
2018-02-14 17:08:28.617581
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 2.9.7
Release : 1.fc26
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.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.9.7 which hopefully fixes all security issues
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1452550 – CVE-2017-9047 CVE-2017-9048 CVE-2017-9049 CVE-2017-9050 libxml2: various flaws [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452550
[ 2 ] Bug #1449544 – CVE-2017-8872 libxml2: Out-of-bounds read in htmlParseTryOrFinish [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449544
[ 3 ] Bug #1406920 – libxml2 should no longer use PyVerify_fd
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406920
[ 4 ] Bug #1384427 – CVE-2016-4658 libxml2: Use after free via namespace node in XPointer ranges [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384427
[ 5 ] Bug #1361439 – CVE-2016-5131 libxml2: chromium-browser: use-after-free in libxml [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361439
[ 6 ] Bug #1503087 – libxml2-2.9.7 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503087
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This update can be installed with the “dnf” update program. Use
su -c ‘dnf upgrade libxml2’ at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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