===================================================================== CERT-Renater Note d'Information No. 2011/VULN225 _____________________________________________________________________ DATE : 14/03/2011 HARDWARE PLATFORM(S) : / OPERATING SYSTEM(S) : Fedora version 14 running libxml2 versions prior to 2.7.7-3.fc14. ====================================================================== http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055775.html ______________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-2697 2011-03-05 01:43:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxml2 Product : Fedora 14 Version : 2.7.7 Release : 3.fc14 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes a possible double free in XPath evaluation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Mar 4 2011 Daniel Veillard - 2.7.7-3 - fix a double free in XPath CVE-2010-4494 bug 665965 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #665963 - CVE-2010-4494 libxml2: Memory corruption (double-free) in XPath processing code https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665963 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== ========================================================= Les serveurs de référence du CERT-Renater http://www.urec.fr/securite http://www.cru.fr/securite http://www.renater.fr ========================================================= + CERT-RENATER | tel : 01-53-94-20-44 + + 23 - 25 Rue Daviel | fax : 01-53-94-20-41 + + 75013 Paris | email: certsvp@renater.fr + =========================================================