SUSE-SU-2019:13985-1

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    SUSE-SU-2019:13985-1

    Published: 21 Mar 2019Last Modified: 2 May 2025

    Summary: Security update for libxml2

    Details: This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-14404: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in the xmlXPathCompOpEval() function when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case leading to a denial of service attack (bsc#1102046) Other Issue fixed: - Fixed a bug related to the fix for CVE-2016-9318 which allowed xsltproc to access the internet even when --nonet was given and also was making docbook-xsl-stylesheets to have incomplete xml catalog file (bsc#1010675, bsc#1126613 and bsc#1110146).

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-201913985-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1010675, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102046, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110146, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1126613, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9318, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14404

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/libxml2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.6-0.77.15.1

    Affected versions

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