[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: mingw32-libxml2-2.7.3-2.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8580
2009-08-15 07:17:49
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Name        : mingw32-libxml2
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 2.7.3
Release     : 2.fc11
URL         : http://xmlsoft.org/
Summary     : MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library
Description :
MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.

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Update Information:

two patches for parsing problems raised by Ficora
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 10 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 2.7.3-2
- two patches for parsing problems CVE-2009-2414 and CVE-2009-2416
* Mon May  4 2009 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro at fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.3-1
- Update to 2.7.3
* Fri Apr  3 2009 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro at fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.2-9
- Fixed %defattr line
- Added -static subpackage. Applications which want to link
  against this static library needs to add -DLIBXML_STATIC to the CFLAGS
- This package shouldn't own %{_mingw32_libdir}/pkgconfig
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #515195 - CVE-2009-2414 libxml, libxml2: Stack overflow by parsing root XML element DTD definition
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195
  [ 2 ] Bug #515205 - CVE-2009-2416 libxml, libxml2: Pointer use-after-free flaws by parsing Notation and Enumeration attribute types
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515205
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