Trustix alert: libxml2

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2004-0010

Package name: libxml2 Summary: buffer overrun in nanohttp Date: 2004-03-05 Affected versions: Trustix 2.0

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package description: This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files.

Problem description: URLs longer than 4096 bytes would cause an overflow while using nanohttp in libxml2.

Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your system.

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MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13066c223f0c3148eb69cfd399ea3f14 2.0/rpms/libxml2-2.5.10-1tr.i586.rpm b0a80332a30d823552dc99a13ffbf689 2.0/rpms/libxml2-devel-2.5.10-1tr.i586.rpm f58ec53e75a663aee96b7e472d01874f 2.0/rpms/libxml2-python-2.5.10-1tr.i586.rpm 2a048d808097e162648d7f31f6c0ada5 2.0/srpms/libxml2-2.5.10-1tr.src.rpm - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Trustix Security Team

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