OVMSA-2015-0152

OVMSA-2015-0152 - libxml2 security update

Type:	SECURITY
Impact:	MODERATE
Release Date:	2015-12-07

Description

[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

Related CVEs

CVE-2015-5312

CVE-2015-7941

CVE-2015-7942

CVE-2015-8317

CVE-2015-8242

CVE-2015-7499

CVE-2015-7497

CVE-2015-7498

CVE-2015-7500

CVE-2015-8241

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	sha256	Superseded By Advisory	Channel Label
Oracle VM 3.3 (x86_64)	libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.src.rpm	5391efa0bf34a4bfb036421f92b45d29cb3a980929978db128a6bee03ce8306e	OVMSA-2016-0087	ovm3_x86_64_3.3_patch
	libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm	eeb55e7654794ee06a06f08d7b029fc250f4f824534a767cbe956fde744087b3	OVMSA-2016-0087	ovm3_x86_64_3.3_patch
	libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm	cef59aa8aa16232a24e0ed733fa3387127f09b6e6ddd565efe94caba78de2965	OVMSA-2016-0087	ovm3_x86_64_3.3_patch
Oracle VM 3.4 (x86_64)	libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.src.rpm	5391efa0bf34a4bfb036421f92b45d29cb3a980929978db128a6bee03ce8306e	OVMSA-2016-0087	ovm34_x86_64_latest
	libxml2-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm	eeb55e7654794ee06a06f08d7b029fc250f4f824534a767cbe956fde744087b3	OVMSA-2016-0087	ovm34_x86_64_latest
	libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.0.1.el6_7.1.x86_64.rpm	cef59aa8aa16232a24e0ed733fa3387127f09b6e6ddd565efe94caba78de2965	OVMSA-2016-0087	ovm34_x86_64_latest

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