Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0214 (libxml2)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0214: Updated libxml2 packages fix CVE-2014-0191 
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Sat, 10 May 2014 21:46:34 +0200
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MGASA-2014-0214 - Updated libxml2 packages fix CVE-2014-0191

Publication date: 10 May 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0214.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0191

Description:
Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability:

It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read,
modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in
the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any
entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a
specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the
exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors (CVE-2014-0191).

References:
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090976
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13338
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0191

SRPMS:
- 4/core/libxml2-2.9.1-2.1.mga4
- 3/core/libxml2-2.9.0-5.3.mga3