Advisories » MGASA-2021-0232

Updated libxml2 packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Jun 2021
Modification date: 07 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-3541

Description

Exponential entity expansion attack bypasses all existing protection mechanisms. (CVE-2021-3541).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29039
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/NYSYJVWYEQHFG2TBIQJRJ5COUR5LNFJJ/
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2669
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3541

SRPMS

7/core

• libxml2-2.9.9-2.7.mga7

8/core

• libxml2-2.9.10-7.2.mga8