MGASA-2015-0423

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    MGASA-2015-0423

    Published: 2 Nov 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7942

    Summary: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability: Crafted xml causes out of bound memory access in libxml2 due to a heap buffer-overflow in xmlParseConditionalSections() in parser.c (CVE-2015-7942).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0423.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17024, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756456, http://lwn.net/Alerts/662021/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libxml2?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.1-11.2.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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