RHSA-2011:1749Low

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security and bug fix update

Published
December 5, 2011
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2010-4008 →CVE-2010-4494 →CVE-2011-0216 →CVE-2011-1944 →CVE-2011-2821 →CVE-2011-2834 →

📋 Description

CVE-2010-4008 — libxml2: Crash (stack frame overflow or NULL pointer dereference) by traversal of XPath axis CVE-2010-4494 — libxml2: double-free in XPath processing code CVE-2011-0216 — libxml2: Off-by-one error leading to heap-based buffer overflow in encoding CVE-2011-1944 — libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow by adding new namespace node to an existing nodeset or merging nodesets CVE-2011-2821 — libxml2: double free caused by malformed XPath expression in XSLT CVE-2011-2834 — libxml2: double-free caused by malformed XPath expression in XSLT

🎯 Affected products80

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.7.6-4.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.7.6-4.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

🔗 References (10)