| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to libxml2
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-9729.
Update Information:
Fixes a couple of security issues when overflowing text data size of buffer
size.
ChangeLog:
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Daniel Veillard - 2.7.2-2.fc8
- two patches for size overflows problems CVE-2008-4225 and CVE-2008-4226
* Tue Oct 7 2008 Daniel Veillard 2.7.2-1.fc8
- new release 2.7.2
- Fixes the known problems in 2.7.1
- increase the set of options when saving documents
* Thu Oct 2 2008 Daniel Veillard 2.7.1-2.fc8
- fix a nasty bug in 2.7.x, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #470480 - CVE-2008-4225 libxml2: integer overflow leading to infinite loop in xmlBufferResize
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470480
[ 2 ] Bug #470466 - CVE-2008-4226 libxml2: integer overflow leading to memory corruption in xmlSAX2Characters
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470466
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libxml2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-9729
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score:
10.0
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