ELSA-2025-2673

ELSA-2025-2673 - libxml2 security update

Type:SECURITY
Impact:IMPORTANT
Release Date:2025-03-20

Description


[2.9.1-6.0.5]
- Fix CVE-2024-56171 [Orabug: 37694105]
- Fix CVE-2025-24928 [Orabug: 37694105]

[2.9.1-6.0.3]
- Rebuild to include attribution logo [Orabug: 33024216]
- Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball
- Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball

[2.9.1-6.6]
- Fix CVE-2016-4658 (#1966916)

[2.9.1-6.5]
- Fix CVE-2019-19956 (#1793000)
- Fix CVE-2019-20388 (#1810057)
- Fix CVE-2020-7595 (#1810073)
- Fix xsd:any schema validation (#1812145)

[2.9.1-6.4]
- Fix CVE-2015-8035 (#1595697)
- Fix CVE-2018-14404 (#1602817)
- Fix CVE-2017-15412 (#1729857)
- Fix CVE-2016-5131 (#1714050)
- Fix CVE-2017-18258 (#1579211)
- Fix CVE-2018-1456 (#1622715)

[libxml2-2.9.1-6.3]
- Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (CVE-2016-1762)
- Bug 763071: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat (CVE-2016-1834)
- Bug 757711: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup (CVE-2016-1840)
- Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal (CVE-2016-1838)
- Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString (CVE-2016-1839)
- Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey (CVE-2016-1836)
- Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (CVE-2016-4449)
- Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (CVE-2016-1837)
- Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (CVE-2016-1835)
- Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (CVE-2016-4447)
- Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (CVE-2016-1833)
- Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (CVE-2016-3705)
- Avoid building recursive entities (CVE-2016-3627)
- Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)
- More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)

[2.9.1-6.2]
- Fix a series of CVEs (rhbz#1286496)
- CVE-2015-7941 Stop parsing on entities boundaries errors
- 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
- CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory

[2.9.1-6]
- Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix
- CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (rhbz#1195650)
- Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch

[2.9.1-5.1]
- CVE-2014-3660 denial of service via recursive entity expansion (rhbz#1149087)

[2.9.1-5]
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24

[2.9.1-4]
- rebuild to activate -O3 on ppc64 rhbz#1051068

[2.9.1-3]
- Mass rebuild 2013-12-27

[2.9.1-2]
- Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() rhbz#963716

[2.9.1-1]
- upstream release of 2.9.1
- a couple more API entry point
- compatibility with python3
- a lot of bug fixes

[2.9.0-4]
- fix --nocheck build which I broke in october rhbz#909767

[2.9.0-3]
- workaround for crc/len check failure, rhbz#877567

[2.9.0-2]
- remaining cleanups from merge bug rhbz#226079
- do not put the docs in the main package, only in -devel rhbz#864731

[2.9.0-1]
- upstream release of 2.9.0
- A few new API entry points
- More resilient push parser mode
- A lot of portability improvement
- Faster XPath evaluation
- a lot of bug fixes and smaller improvement

[2.9.0-0rc1]
- upstream release candidate 1 of 2.9.0
- introduce a small API change, but ABI compatible, see
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-August/msg00005.html
patches for php, gcc/libjava and evolution-data-connector are upstream
Grab me in cases of problems veillard@redhat.com
- many bug fixes including security aspects and small improvements

[2.8.0-2]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild

[2.8.0-1]
- upstream release of 2.8.0
- add lzma compression support
- many bug fixes and small improvements

[2.7.8-7]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild

[2.7.8-6]
- fix a double free in XPath CVE-2010-4494 bug 665965

[2.7.8-5]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild

[2.7.8-4]
- reactivate shared libs versionning script

[2.7.8-1]
- Upstream release of 2.7.8
- various bug fixes, including potential crashes
- new non-destructive formatting option
- date parsing updated to RFC 5646

[2.7.7-2]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7/MassRebuild

[2.7.7-1]
- Upstream release of 2.7.7
- fix serious trouble with zlib >= 1.2.4
- xmllint new option --xpath
- various HTML parser improvements
- includes a number of nug fixes

[2.7.6-1]
- Upstream release of 2.7.6
- restore thread support off by default in 2.7.5

[2.7.5-1]
- Upstream release of 2.7.5
- fix a couple of Relax-NG validation problems
- couple more fixes

[2.7.4-2]
- fix a problem with little data at startup affecting inkscape #523002

[2.7.4-1]
- upstream release 2.7.4
- symbol versioning of libxml2 shared libs
- very large number of bug fixes

[2.7.3-4]
- two patches for parsing problems CVE-2009-2414 and CVE-2009-2416

[2.7.3-3]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

[2.7.3-2]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

[2.7.3-1]
- new release 2.7.3
- limit default max size of text nodes
- special parser mode for PHP
- bug fixes and more compiler checks

[2.7.2-7]
- Pull back into Python 2.6

[2.7.2-6]
- AutoProvides requires BuildRequires pkgconfig

[2.7.2-5]
- rebuild to get provides(libxml-2.0) into HEAD rawhide

[2.7.2-4]
- Rebuild for pkgconfig logic

[2.7.2-3]
- Rebuild for Python 2.6

[2.7.2-2.fc11]
- two patches for size overflows problems CVE-2008-4225 and CVE-2008-4226

[2.7.2-1.fc10]
- new release 2.7.2
- Fixes the known problems in 2.7.1
- increase the set of options when saving documents

[2.7.1-2.fc10]
- fix a nasty bug in 2.7.x, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660

[2.7.1-1.fc10]
- fix python serialization which was broken in 2.7.0
- Resolve: rhbz#460774

[2.7.0-1.fc10]
- upstream release of 2.7.0
- switch to XML 1.0 5th edition
- switch to RFC 3986 for URI parsing
- better entity handling
- option to remove hardcoded limitations in the parser
- more testing
- a new API to allocate entity nodes
- and lot of fixes and clanups

[2.6.32-4.fc10]
- fix for entities recursion problem
- Resolve: rhbz#459714

[2.6.32-3.fc10]
- cleanup based on Fedora packaging guidelines, should fix #226079
- separate a -static package

[2.6.32-2.fc10]
- try to fix multiarch problems like #440206

[2.6.32-1.fc9]
- upstream release 2.6.32 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bug fixed upstream

[2.6.31-2]
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

[2.6.31-1.fc9]
- upstream release 2.6.31 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bug fixed upstream

[2.6.30-1]
- upstream release 2.6.30 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bug fixed upstream

[2.6.29-1]
- upstream release 2.6.29 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bug fixed upstream

[2.6.28-2]
- Bump revision to fix N-V-R problem

[2.6.28-1]
- upstream release 2.6.28 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- many bug fixed upstream

[2.6.27-2]
- rebuild against python 2.5

[2.6.27-1]
- upstream release 2.6.27 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- very large amount of bug fixes reported upstream

[2.6.26-2.1.1]
- rebuild

[2.6.26-2.1]
- rebuild

[2.6.26-2]
- fix bug #192873

[2.6.26-1]
- upstream release 2.6.26 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

* Tue Jun 06 2006 Daniel Veillard
- upstream release 2.6.25 broken, do not ship !


Related CVEs


CVE-2024-56171
CVE-2025-24928

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By AdvisoryChannel Label
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) libxml2-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.src.rpm8e2184c8938b3ec97a84e62dfdf1ede0-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.i686.rpm24af8e902882e149baed681ea1a696e8-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.x86_64.rpm60f50fdd3acfea7f1ad8b47142021691-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.i686.rpm01e333c664dc397d47c8e9533c7f5b05-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.x86_64.rpmbe453c4988c35cb3b341951549c3b09b-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.x86_64.rpm892351bf03fb497cc9a8c71d1286b56c-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.i686.rpm268ae245f8d401967ff14beb77d5a20b-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS
libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.0.5.el7_9.6.x86_64.rpmf09ccc9a650a1cfc72deb82b2b304818-ol7_x86_64_latest_ELS



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