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New libxml2 packages have been made available for Fedora Linux 40 to resolve a XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability:

Fedora 40 Update: libxml2-2.12.9-1.fc40




[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: libxml2-2.12.9-1.fc40


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-9f3765a04b
2025-01-01 04:38:16.750213+00:00
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Name : libxml2
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 2.12.9
Release : 1.fc40
URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/wikis/home
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 2.12.9
Fixes CVE-2024-40896
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 24 2024 David King [amigadave@amigadave.com] - 2.12.9-1
- Update to 2.12.9 (#2333937)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2333937 - CVE-2024-40896 libxml2: XXE vulnerability [fedora-40]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2333937
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-9f3765a04b' 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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