TSLSA-2004-0010 - 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
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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.
Location:
All Trustix updates are available from
<URI:http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using 'swup --upgrade'.
Public testing:
Most updates for Trustix are made available for public testing some time
before release.
If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/>
You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
class = 0
location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf";
regexp = ".*"
}
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>
Verification:
This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the
TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/TSL-SIGN-KEY>
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.0/>
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2004/TSL-2004-0010-libxml2.asc.txt>
MD5sums of the packages:
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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
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Trustix Security Team
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