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Rocky Linux: RLSA-2023:4529 libxml2 security update

October 6, 2023
An update is available for libxml2. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Summary

An update is available for libxml2. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. Security Fix(es): * libxml2: NULL dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType (CVE-2023-28484) * libxml2: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic (CVE-2023-29469) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

RPMs

libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.src.rpm

libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

libxml2-devel-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

python3-libxml2-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

python3-libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-16.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm

References

No References

CVEs

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28484

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29469

Severity
Name: RLSA-2023:4529
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185984

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185994


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