Comment 5 for bug 1525996

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package libxml2 - 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.7

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libxml2 (2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.7) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: incomplete fix for out of bounds read in xmlGROW
    (LP: #1525996)
    - add extra commits to this previously-fixed CVE
    - debian/patches/CVE-2015-7499-3.patch: reuse xmlHaltParser() where it
      makes sense in parser.c.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2015-7499-4.patch: do not print error context when
      there is none in error.c.
    - CVE-2015-7499
  * SECURITY UPDATE: out of bounds memory access via unclosed html comment
    - debian/patches/CVE-2015-8710.patch: fix parsing short unclosed
      comment uninitialized access in HTMLparser.c.
    - CVE-2015-8710

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:13:10 -0500