RHBA-2010:0008 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages that fix various
bugs are available.

Description

XML::SAX is a SAX parser access API for Perl. It includes classes and APIs
required for implementing SAX drivers, along with a factory class for
returning any SAX parser installed on the user's system. XML::LibXML
provides a library for working with XML files.

These updated perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages provide the
following bug fixes:

• UTF-8 would not be represented correctly by the perl-XML-SAX parser

because the Unicode version of
XML::SAX::PurePerl::Reader::switch_encoding_string() used
Encode::from_to() that did not set the Perl internal UTF-8 flag. This bug
has been corrected by replacing the use of Encode::from_to() with the use
of Encode::decode(). (BZ#475250)

• When upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, a later version or

upgrading the individual perl-XML-SAX-0.14 package to perl-XML-SAX-0.14-6,
error messages concerning the perl-XML-SAX package would be logged in the
/root/upgrade.log file. These messages occurred because of a missing file
or file data within ParserDetails.ini. This file has been restored to the
perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages with this update. (BZ#289061,
BZ#538855, BZ#536819)

Warning, both perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages must be
updated together in one step. Updating these packages separately can result
in the configuration file ParserDetails.ini becoming broken.

All users of perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML are advised to upgrade to
these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 289061 - Could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX
• BZ - 475250 - perl-XML-SAX does not properly decode UTF-8 characters
• BZ - 538855 - trigger scriptlet delete content of ParserDetails.ini

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)