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A libxml2 security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: libxml2-2.10.4-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-a521b917c8
2023-04-18 01:38:45.331553
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 2.10.4
Release : 1.fc38
URL :   http://xmlsoft.org/
Summary : Library providing XML and HTML support
Description :
This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support
this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either
at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output
can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations.
In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation
to select sub nodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is
available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an
URI library.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.10.4 * Fix CVE-2023-29469 * Fix CVE-2023-28484
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 12 2023 David King - 2.10.4-1
- Update to 2.10.4 (#2185870)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2185870 - libxml2-2.10.4 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185870
[ 2 ] Bug #2185985 - CVE-2023-29469 libxml2: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185985
[ 3 ] Bug #2185996 - CVE-2023-28484 libxml2: NULL dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185996
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-a521b917c8' 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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