[El-errata] ELSA-2013-0581 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 libxml2 security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Feb 28 19:00:18 PST 2013


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-0581

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0581.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
libxml2-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-python-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-static-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.i686.rpm

x86_64:
libxml2-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-python-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-static-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/libxml2-2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.7.6-12.0.1.el6_4.1]
- Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball
- Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball

[2.7.6-12.el6_4.1]
-detect and stop excessive entities expansion upon replacement (rhbz#912574)

[2.7.6-12.el6]
- fix out of range heap access (CVE-2012-5134)

[2.7.6-11.el6]
- Change the XPath code to percolate allocation error (CVE-2011-1944)

[2.7.6-10.el6]
- Fix an off by one pointer access (CVE-2011-3102)


[2.7.6-9.el6]
- Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures
- Fix parser local buffers size problems (rhbz#843742)
- Fix entities local buffers size problems (rhbz#843742)
- Fix an error in previous commit (rhbz#843742)
- Do not fetch external parsed entities
- Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (rhbz#843742)
- Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (rhbz#843742)
- Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (rhbz#843742)
- Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (rhbz#843742)
- Introduce some default parser limits (rhbz#843742)
- Implement some default limits in the XPath module
- Fixup limits parser (rhbz#843742)
- Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser
- Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (rhbz#843742)
- More avoid quadratic behaviour (rhbz#843742)
- Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations 
(rhbz#843742)
- More fixups on the push parser behaviour (rhbz#843742)
- Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error
- Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation





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