Re: libxml2 denial of service flaw (CVE-2008-3281)

[Robert Buchholz <rbu () gentoo org>]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:42:29PM -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > Yes, this can be considered public.  An announcement should be
> > appearing on the xml list shortly:
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/
>
>   It's out:
>
>    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html
>
> thanks everybody !

Our gnome maintainers pointed out that the patch (which was also pushed 
upstream) breaks GDM in GNOME 2.22, as can be seen in Gentoo and 
Mandriva:
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235529
  https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43094

upstream bug:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549087

Those who did not push updates yet might want to delay this, we have 
been reverting the patch for now.
I am CC'ing oss-security, please send follow-ups to that list.


Robert

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