SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: mingw-libxml2-2.9.10-8.fc33
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-ff317550e4
2020-11-20 01:38:40.112323
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Name : mingw-libxml2
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 2.9.10
Release : 8.fc33
URL : http://xmlsoft.org/
Summary : MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library
Description :
MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.
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Update Information:
Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Nov 11 2020 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.9.10-8
- Add correct fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788), thanks: Jan de Groot.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1877788 - CVE-2020-24977 libxml2: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877788
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-ff317550e4' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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A mingw-libxml2 security update has been released for Fedora 33.