[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: libxml-1.8.17-24.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8582
2009-08-15 07:17:49
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Name        : libxml
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.8.17
Release     : 24.fc11
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 includes patches from RHEL-3 addressing a number of security
vulnerabilities:    - CVE-2004-0110 (arbitrary code execution via a long URL)  -
CVE-2004-0989 (arbitrary code execution via a long URL)  - CVE-2009-2414 (stack
consumption DoS vulnerabilities)  - CVE-2009-2416 (use-after-free DoS
vulnerabilities)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 12 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1:1.8.17-24
- renumber existing patches to free up low-numbered patches for EL-3 patches
- add patch for CAN-2004-0110 and CAN-2004-0989 (#139090)
- add patch for CVE-2009-2414 and CVE-2009-2416 (#515195, #515205)
* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> 1:1.8.17-23
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Apr 20 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1:1.8.17-22
- rebuild for %{_isa} provides/requires
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #430644 - CVE-2004-0110 libxml2 long URL causes SEGV
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430644
  [ 2 ] Bug #430645 - CVE-2004-0989 libxml2 various overflows
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430645
  [ 3 ] Bug #515195 - CVE-2009-2414 libxml, libxml2: Stack overflow by parsing root XML element DTD definition
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195
  [ 4 ] Bug #515205 - CVE-2009-2416 libxml, libxml2: Pointer use-after-free flaws by parsing Notation and Enumeration attribute types
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515205
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libxml' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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