[ol7_u4_base] libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.0.1.el7_2.3.x86_64

The libxml2-python package contains a module that permits applications
written in the Python programming language to use the interface
supplied by the libxml2 library to manipulate XML files.

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support
this includes parsing and validation even with complex DTDs, either
at parse time or later once the document has been modified.

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• Thu Jun 23 2016 Livy Ge <livy.ge@oracle.com> - 2.9.1-6.0.1.3

  - Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball
  - Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball

• Mon Jun 06 2016 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - libxml2-2.9.1-6.3

  - Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (CVE-2016-1762)
  - Bug 763071: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763071> (CVE-2016-1834)
  - Bug 757711: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711> (CVE-2016-1840)
  - Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588> (CVE-2016-1838)
  - Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605> (CVE-2016-1839)
  - Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398> (CVE-2016-1836)
  - Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (CVE-2016-4449)
  - Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (CVE-2016-1837)
  - Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (CVE-2016-1835)
  - Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (CVE-2016-4447)
  - Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (CVE-2016-1833)
  - Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (CVE-2016-3705)
  - Avoid building recursive entities (CVE-2016-3627)
  - Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)
  - More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448)

• Mon Nov 30 2015 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-6.2

  - Fix a series of CVEs (rhbz#1286496)
  - CVE-2015-7941 Stop parsing on entities boundaries errors
  - CVE-2015-7941 Cleanup conditional section error handling
  - CVE-2015-8317 Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed
  - CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections
  - CVE-2015-7942 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch
  - Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access
  - CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures
  - CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey
  - CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue
  - CVE-2015-7499 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser
  - CVE-2015-7499 Detect incoherency on GROW
  - CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries
  - CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode
  - CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory

• Mon Mar 23 2015 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-6

  - Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix
  - CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (rhbz#1195650)
  - Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch

• Sat Oct 11 2014 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-5.1

  - CVE-2014-3660 denial of service via recursive entity expansion (rhbz#1149087)

• Fri Jan 24 2014 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-5

  - Mass rebuild 2014-01-24

• Wed Jan 15 2014 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-4

  - rebuild to activate -O3 on ppc64 rhbz#1051068

• Fri Dec 27 2013 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-3

  - Mass rebuild 2013-12-27

• Fri Nov 15 2013 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-2

  - Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() rhbz#963716

• Fri Apr 19 2013 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.1-1

  - upstream release of 2.9.1
  - a couple more API entry point
  - compatibility with python3
  - a lot of bug fixes

• Mon Feb 11 2013 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-4

  - fix --nocheck build which I broke in october rhbz#909767

• Mon Nov 19 2012 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-3

  - workaround for crc/len check failure, rhbz#877567

• Thu Oct 11 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-2

  - remaining cleanups from merge bug rhbz#226079
  - do not put the docs in the main package, only in -devel rhbz#864731

• Tue Sep 11 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-1

  - upstream release of 2.9.0
  - A few new API entry points
  - More resilient push parser mode
  - A lot of portability improvement
  - Faster XPath evaluation
  - a lot of bug fixes and smaller improvement

• Fri Aug 10 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-0rc1

  - upstream release candidate 1 of 2.9.0
  - introduce a small API change, but ABI compatible, see
    https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-August/msg00005.html
    patches for php, gcc/libjava and evolution-data-connector are upstream
    Grab me in cases of problems veillard@redhat.com
  - many bug fixes including security aspects and small improvements

• Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.0-2

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild

• Wed May 23 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1

  - upstream release of 2.8.0
  - add lzma compression support
  - many bug fixes and small improvements

• Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.8-7

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild

• Fri Mar 04 2011 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.8-6

  - fix a double free in XPath CVE-2010-4494 bug 665965

• Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.8-5

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild

• Fri Nov 05 2010 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.8-4

  - reactivate shared libs versionning script

• Thu Nov 04 2010 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.8-1

  - Upstream release of 2.7.8
  - various bug fixes, including potential crashes
  - new non-destructive formatting option
  - date parsing updated to RFC 5646

• Wed Jul 21 2010 David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com> - 2.7.7-2

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Python_2.7/MassRebuild

• Mon Mar 15 2010 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.7-1

  - Upstream release of 2.7.7
  - fix serious trouble with zlib >= 1.2.4
  - xmllint new option --xpath
  - various HTML parser improvements
  - includes a number of nug fixes

• Tue Oct 06 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.6-1

  - Upstream release of 2.7.6
  - restore thread support off by default in 2.7.5

• Thu Sep 24 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.5-1

  - Upstream release of 2.7.5
  - fix a couple of Relax-NG validation problems
  - couple more fixes

• Tue Sep 15 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.4-2

  - fix a problem with little data at startup affecting inkscape #523002

• Thu Sep 10 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.4-1

  - upstream release 2.7.4
  - symbol versioning of libxml2 shared libs
  - very large number of bug fixes

• Mon Aug 10 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.3-4

  - two patches for parsing problems CVE-2009-2414 and CVE-2009-2416

• Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.3-3

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

• Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.7.3-2

  - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

• Sun Jan 18 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.3-1

  - new release 2.7.3
  - limit default max size of text nodes
  - special parser mode for PHP
  - bug fixes and more compiler checks

• Wed Dec 03 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm@gmail.com> - 2.7.2-7

  - Pull back into Python 2.6

• Wed Dec 03 2008 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 2.7.2-6

  - AutoProvides requires BuildRequires pkgconfig

• Wed Dec 03 2008 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 2.7.2-5

  - rebuild to get provides(libxml-2.0) into HEAD rawhide

• Mon Dec 01 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm@gmail.com> - 2.7.2-4

  - Rebuild for pkgconfig logic

• Fri Nov 28 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm@gmail.com> - 2.7.2-3

  - Rebuild for Python 2.6

• Wed Nov 12 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.2-2.fc11

  - two patches for size overflows problems CVE-2008-4225 and CVE-2008-4226

• Fri Oct 03 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.2-1.fc10

  - new release 2.7.2
  - Fixes the known problems in 2.7.1
  - increase the set of options when saving documents

• Thu Oct 02 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.1-2.fc10

  - fix a nasty bug in 2.7.x, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660

• Mon Sep 01 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.1-1.fc10

  - fix python serialization which was broken in 2.7.0
  - Resolve: rhbz#460774

• Sat Aug 30 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.7.0-1.fc10

  - upstream release of 2.7.0
  - switch to XML 1.0 5th edition
  - switch to RFC 3986 for URI parsing
  - better entity handling
  - option to remove hardcoded limitations in the parser
  - more testing
  - a new API to allocate entity nodes
  - and lot of fixes and clanups

• Mon Aug 25 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.32-4.fc10

  - fix for entities recursion problem
  - Resolve: rhbz#459714

• Fri May 30 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.32-3.fc10

  - cleanup based on Fedora packaging guidelines, should fix #226079
  - separate a -static package

• Thu May 15 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.32-2.fc10

  - try to fix multiarch problems like #440206

• Tue Apr 08 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.32-1.fc9

  - upstream release 2.6.32 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  - many bug fixed upstream

• Wed Feb 20 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.6.31-2

  - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

• Fri Jan 11 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.31-1.fc9

  - upstream release 2.6.31 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  - many bug fixed upstream

• Thu Aug 23 2007 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.30-1

  - upstream release 2.6.30 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  - many bug fixed upstream

• Tue Jun 12 2007 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.29-1

  - upstream release 2.6.29 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  - many bug fixed upstream

• Wed May 16 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> 2.6.28-2

  - Bump revision to fix N-V-R problem

• Tue Apr 17 2007 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.28-1

  - upstream release 2.6.28 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  - many bug fixed upstream

• Thu Dec 07 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 2.6.27-2

  - rebuild against python 2.5

• Wed Oct 25 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.27-1

  - upstream release 2.6.27 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
  - very large amount of bug fixes reported upstream

• Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.6.26-2.1.1

  - rebuild

• Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.6.26-2.1

  - rebuild

• Wed Jun 07 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.26-2

  - fix bug #192873

• Tue Jun 06 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> 2.6.26-1

  - upstream release 2.6.26 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

• Tue Jun 06 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>

  - upstream release 2.6.25 broken, do not ship !