SUSE-SU-2016:0030-1

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    SUSE-SU-2016:0030-1

    Published: 5 Jan 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for libxml2

    Details: This update fixes the following security issues: * CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory [bnc#928193] * CVE-2015-7941 Fix out of bound read with crafted xml input by stopping parsing on entities boundaries errors [bnc#951734] * CVE-2015-7942 Fix another variation of overflow in Conditional sections [bnc#951735] * CVE-2015-8241 Avoid extra processing of MarkupDecl when EOF [bnc#956018] * CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode [bnc#956021] * CVE-2015-8317 Return if the encoding declaration is broken or encoding conversion failed [bnc#956260] * CVE-2015-5312 Fix another entity expansion issue [bnc#957105] * CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey [bnc#957106] * CVE-2015-7498 Processes entities after encoding conversion failures [bnc#957107] * CVE-2015-7499 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser / Detect incoherency on GROW [bnc#957109] * CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries [bnc#957110]

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20160030-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/928193, https://bugzilla.suse.com/951734, https://bugzilla.suse.com/951735, https://bugzilla.suse.com/956018, https://bugzilla.suse.com/956021, https://bugzilla.suse.com/956260, https://bugzilla.suse.com/957105, https://bugzilla.suse.com/957106, https://bugzilla.suse.com/957107, https://bugzilla.suse.com/957109, https://bugzilla.suse.com/957110, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1819, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5312, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7497, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7498, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7499, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7500, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7941, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7942, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8241, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8242, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8317

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libxml2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.6-0.34.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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