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A mingw-libxml2 security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: mingw-libxml2-2.9.10-3.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-b60dbdd538
2020-09-19 22:37:58.507772
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Name : mingw-libxml2
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 2.9.10
Release : 3.fc32
URL :   http://xmlsoft.org/
Summary : MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library
Description :
MinGW Windows libxml2 XML processing library.

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Update Information:

Add fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788, RHBZ#1877789).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep 11 2020 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.9.10-7
- Add fix for CVE-2020-24977 (RHBZ#1877788, RHBZ#1877789).
* Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.9.10-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1877788 - CVE-2020-24977 libxml2: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877788
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b60dbdd538' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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