development/libraries

libxml2-python - Python bindings for the libxml2 library

Website: http://xmlsoft.org/
License: MIT
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
The libxml2-python package contains a module that permits applications
written in the Python programming language to use the interface
supplied by the libxml2 library to manipulate XML files.

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support
this includes parsing and validation even with complex DTDs, either
at parse time or later once the document has been modified.

Packages

libxml2-python-2.7.6-21.el6_8.1.x86_64 [323 KiB] Changelog by Daniel Veillard (2016-06-07):
- Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (CVE-2016-1762)
- Bug 763071: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763071> (CVE-2016-1834)
- Bug 757711: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711> (CVE-2016-1840)
- Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588> (CVE-2016-1838)
- Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605> (CVE-2016-1839)
- Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398> (CVE-2016-1836)
- Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (CVE-2016-4449)
- Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (CVE-2016-1837)
- Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (CVE-2016-1835)
- Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (CVE-2016-4447)
- Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (CVE-2016-1833)
- Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (CVE-2016-3705)
- Avoid building recursive entities (CVE-2016-3627)
- Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)
- More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)
libxml2-python-2.7.6-20.el6_7.1.x86_64 [322 KiB] Changelog by Daniel Veillard (2015-11-30):
- Fix a series of CVEs (rhbz#1286495)
- CVE-2015-7941 Cleanup conditional section error handling
- CVE-2015-8317 Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed
- CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections
- CVE-2015-7942 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch
- Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access
- CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures
- CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey
- CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue
- CVE-2015-7499 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser
- CVE-2015-7499 Detect incoherency on GROW
- CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries
- CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode
- Libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes

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