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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9049: libxml2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-9049: libxml2 security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

Description

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for libxml2 Bug 759398.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libxml2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libxml2-python

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