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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-16931: libxml2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-16931: libxml2 security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/28/2018
Modified
06/28/2018

Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libxml2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libxml2-python

References

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