Synopsis: Moderate: libxml2 security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:2550-1 Issue Date: 2015-12-07 CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-1819 CVE-2015-7941 CVE-2015-7942 CVE-2015-5312 CVE-2015-7497 CVE-2015-7498 CVE-2015-7499 CVE-2015-8317 CVE-2015-8241 CVE-2015-7500 CVE-2015-8242 -- Several denial of service flaws were found in libxml2, a library providing support for reading, modifying, and writing XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU, leak potentially sensitive information, or in certain cases crash the application. (CVE-2015-1819, CVE-2015-5312, CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499, CVE-2015-7500 CVE-2015-7941, CVE-2015-7942, CVE-2015-8241, CVE-2015-8242, CVE-2015-8317, BZ#1213957, BZ#1281955) The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect. -- SL7 x86_64 libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.i686.rpm libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.i686.rpm libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.i686.rpm libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.i686.rpm libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team