- Issued:
- 2006-07-20
- Updated:
- 2006-07-20
RHBA-2006:0300 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
perl-XML-Parser bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
Updated perl-XML-Parser packages are available.
Description
This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of
XML::Parser::Expat, which is a lower level interface to James Clark's expat
library. Each call to one of the parsing methods creates a new instance of
XML::Parser::Expat which is then used to parse the document. Expat options
may be provided when the XML::Parser object is created. These options are
then passed on to the Expat object on each parse call. They can also be
given as extra arguments to the parse methods, in which case they override
options given at XML::Parser creation time.
This update backports the memory leak fix from XML::Parser 2.34.
Users of perl-XML-parser should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 142972 - Memory leak in the XML::Parser perl module.
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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