Advisories ยป MGASA-2018-0050

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Jan 2018
Modification date: 03 Jan 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-5130 , CVE-2017-15412 , CVE-2017-16932

Description

Integer overflow in memory debug code in libxml2 before 2.9.5
(CVE-2017-5130).

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrecty handled certain files. An
attacker could use this issue with specially constructed XML data to cause
libxml2 to consume resources, leading to a denial of service
(CVE-2017-15412).

Wei Lei discovered that libxml2 incorrecty handled certain parameter
entities. An attacker could use this issue with specially constructed XML
data to cause libxml2 to consume resources, leading to a denial of service
(CVE-2017-16932).

The libxml2 package has been updated to version 2.9.7 to fix these issues
and several other bugs.

Also, the perl-XML-LibXML package has been updated to version 2.13.200 to
allow it to be rebuilt against the updated libxml2.

References

SRPMS

6/core