[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: libxml-1.8.17-27.fc14

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-7856
2011-06-03 05:04:03
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Name        : libxml
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.8.17
Release     : 27.fc14
URL         : http://veillard.com/XML/
Summary     : Old XML library for Gnome-1 application compatibility
Description :
This library allows old Gnome-1 applications to manipulate XML files.

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Update Information:

This update addresses CVE-2011-1944 (heap-based buffer overflow by adding a new namespace node to an existing nodeset or merging nodesets). It is described in detail at http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/05/libxml-vulnerability-and-interesting.html

It also fixes the broken xpath implementation, which was crashing in the regression test suite on 32-bit architectures and failing some of the tests on all architectures.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun  3 2011 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1:1.8.17-27
- fix segfault and regressions in xpath tests
- use a patch rather than iconv to fix the ChangeLog encoding
* Thu Jun  2 2011 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1:1.8.17-26
- add patch for CVE-2011-1944 (#709751)
- add %check section and run regression tests (note that diffs appearing in
  the output do not cause the build to fail)
- nobody else likes macros for commands
* Tue Feb  8 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:1.8.17-25
- rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #709747 - CVE-2011-1944 libxml, libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow by adding new namespace node to an existing nodeset or merging nodesets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709747
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