A libxml2 security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2023-0173 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 libxml2 security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-0173

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-0173.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.i686.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm
python3-libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
libxml2-devel-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
python3-libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/libxml2-2.9.7-15.el8_7.1.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-40303
CVE-2022-40304



Description of changes:

[2.9.7-15.1]
- Fix CVE-2022-40303 (#2136562)
- Fix CVE-2022-40304 (#2136567)

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