shield Security update for libxml2

SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-709

This update for libxml2 fixes two security issues: - libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML document can contain so to protect against the "Billion Laughs" denial-of-service attack. Unfortunately, the underlying counter was not incremented properly in all necessary locations. Therefore, specially crafted XML documents could exhaust all available stack space and crash the XML parser without running into the recursion limit. This vulnerability has been fixed. (bsc#975947) - When running in recovery mode, certain invalid XML documents would trigger an infinite recursion in libxml2 that ran until all stack space was exhausted. This vulnerability could have been used to facilitate a denial-of-sevice attack. (CVE-2016-3627, bsc#972335)

• Release Date
  May 3 2016
• References
  Bugzilla: 972335, 975947
  CVEs: CVE-2016-3627
• Type
  security
• Severity
  moderate

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 x86_64

• Packages
  libxml2
  A Library to Manipulate XML Files

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  libxml2-2
  A Library to Manipulate XML Files

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  libxml2-2-32bit
  A Library to Manipulate XML Files

  2.9.1-20.1 lock rpm

  libxml2-tools
  Tools using libxml

  2.9.1-20.1 lock rpm

  python-libxml2
  Python Bindings for libxml2

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