Fedora Core alert: libxml2 2.6.6

Posted by dave on Feb 25, 2004 1:26 PM EDT
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Updated libxml2 packages are available to fix an overflow when parsing the URI for remote resources.

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-087 2004-02-25 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxml2 Version : 2.6.6 Release : 3 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 subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an URI library. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Updated libxml2 packages are available to fix an overflow when parsing the URI for remote resources. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Feb 12 2004 Daniel Veillard - upstream release 2.6.6 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/ c46c9ba42ba7d27bfcf48899119a1d40 SRPMS/libxml2-2.6.6-3.src.rpm d7a9dec974250e425d6052e0f648b6c5 i386/libxml2-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm 0758aa446c1a43d18bc016df35288806 i386/libxml2-devel-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm 07843af17c126497f4baa8d279c7d920 i386/libxml2-python-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm ae7105805216615e6460c60be9c679da i386/debug/libxml2-debuginfo-2.6.6-3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Daniel

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