[El-errata] ELSA-2015-2549 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 libxml2 security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Mon Dec 7 10:26:45 PST 2015


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-2549

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2549.html

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

i386:
libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-static-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.i686.rpm

x86_64:
libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-static-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.7.6-20.0.1]
- Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball
- Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball

[2.7.6-20.1]
- Fix a series of CVEs (rhbz#1286495)
- CVE-2015-7941 Cleanup conditional section error handling
- CVE-2015-8317 Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed
- CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections
- CVE-2015-7942 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch
- Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access
- CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures
- CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey
- CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue
- CVE-2015-7499 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser
- CVE-2015-7499 Detect incoherency on GROW
- CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries
- CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode
- Libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes






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