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-to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.9.4: May 23 2016</h3><ul>
- <li>Security:<br />
- More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer),<br />
- Avoid building recursive entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (David Kilzer),<br />
- Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer),<br />
- Detect change of encoding when parsing HTML names (Hugh Davenport),<br />
- Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398> (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605> (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588> (David Kilzer),<br />
- Bug 757711: heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711> (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (Peter Simons)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Documentation:<br />
- Fix typo: s{ ec -> cr }cipt (Jan Pokorný),<br />
- Fix typos: dictio{ nn -> n }ar{y,ies} (Jan Pokorný),<br />
- Fix typos: PATH_{ SEAPARATOR -> SEPARATOR } (Jan Pokorný),<br />
- Correct a typo. (Shlomi Fish)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Portability:<br />
- Correct the usage of LDFLAGS (Mattias Hansson),<br />
- Revert the use of SAVE_LDFLAGS in configure.ac (Mattias Hansson),<br />
- libxml2 hardcodes -L/lib in zlib/lzma tests which breaks cross-compiles (Mike Frysinger),<br />
- Fix apibuild for a recently added construct (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Use pkg-config to locate zlib when possible (Stewart Brodie),<br />
- Use pkg-config to locate ICU when possible (Stewart Brodie),<br />
- Portability to non C99 compliant compilers (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- dict.h: Move xmlDictPtr definition before includes to allow direct inclusion. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: tell about xmllint and xmlcatalog in README400. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: properly process SGML add in XMLCATALOG command. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: implement CL command XMLCATALOG. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: compile and install program xmlcatalog (qshell-only). (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: expand tabs in sources, strip trailing blanks. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: implement CL command XMLLINT. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: compile and install program xmllint (qshell-only). (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: initscript make_module(): Use options instead of positional parameters. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: c14n.rpgle: allow *omit for nullable reference parameters. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: use like() for double type. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: use like() for int type. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: use like() for unsigned int type. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- os400: use like() for enum types. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- Add xz to xml2-config --libs output (Baruch Siach),<br />
- Bug 760190: configure.ac should be able to build --with-icu without icu-config tool <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760190> (David Kilzer),<br />
- win32\VC10\config.h and VS 2015 (Bruce Dawson),<br />
- Add configure maintainer mode (orzen)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Bug Fixes:<br />
- Avoid an out of bound access when serializing malformed strings (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Unsigned addition may overflow in xmlMallocAtomicLoc() (David Kilzer),<br />
- Integer signed/unsigned type mismatch in xmlParserInputGrow() (David Kilzer),<br />
- Bug 763071: heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763071> (Pranjal Jumde),<br />
- Integer overflow parsing port number in URI (Michael Paddon),<br />
- Fix an error with regexp on nullable counted char transition (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Fix memory leak with XPath namespace nodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix namespace axis traversal (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix null pointer deref in docs with no root element (Hugh Davenport),<br />
- Fix XSD validation of URIs with ampersands (Alex Henrie),<br />
- xmlschemastypes.c: accept endOfDayFrag Times set to "24:00:00" mean "end of day" and should not cause an error. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- xmlcatalog: flush stdout before interactive shell input. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- xmllint: flush stdout before interactive shell input. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
- Don't recurse into OP_VALUEs in xmlXPathOptimizeExpression (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix namespace::node() XPath expression (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix OOB write in xmlXPathEmptyNodeSet (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix parsing of NCNames in XPath (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix OOB read with invalid UTF-8 in xmlUTF8Strsize (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Do normalize string-based datatype value in RelaxNG facet checking (Audric Schiltknecht),<br />
- Bug 760921: REGRESSION (8eb55d78): doc/examples/io1 test fails after fix for "xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths" <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760921> (David Kilzer),<br />
- Bug 760861: REGRESSION (bf9c1dad): Missing results for test/schemas/regexp-char-ref_[01].xsd <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760861> (David Kilzer),<br />
- error.c: *input->cur == 0 does not mean no error (Pavel Raiskup),<br />
- Add missing RNG test files (David Kilzer),<br />
- Bug 760183: REGRESSION (v2.9.3): XML push parser fails with bogus UTF-8 encoding error when multi-byte character in large CDATA section is split across buffer <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760183> (David Kilzer),<br />
- Bug 758572: ASAN crash in make check <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758572> (David Kilzer),<br />
- Bug 721158: Missing ICU string when doing --version on xmllint <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721158> (David Kilzer),<br />
- python 3: libxml2.c wrappers create Unicode str already (Michael Stahl),<br />
- Add autogen.sh to distrib (orzen),<br />
- Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Improvements:<br />
- Add more debugging info to runtest (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Implement "runtest -u" mode (David Kilzer),<br />
- Add a make rule to rebuild for ASAN (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- </li>
-</ul><h3>v2.9.3: Nov 20 2015</h3><ul>
- <li>Security:<br />
- CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode (Hugh Davenport),<br />
- CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-7499-2 Detect incoherency on GROW (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-7499-1 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue (David Drysdale),<br />
- CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey (David Drysdale),<br />
- CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-8035 Fix XZ compression support loop (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-7942-2 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- CVE-2015-7941_2 Cleanup conditional section error handling (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- CVE-2015-7941_1 Stop parsing on entities boundaries errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Documentation:<br />
- Correct spelling of "calling" (Alex Henrie),<br />
- Fix a small error in xmllint --format description (Fabien Degomme),<br />
- Avoid XSS on the search of xmlsoft.org (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Portability:<br />
- threads: use forward declarations only for glibc (Michael Heimpold),<br />
- Update Win32 configure.js to search for configure.ac (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Bug Fixes:<br />
- Bug on creating new stream from entity (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Fix some loop issues embedding NEXT (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Do not print error context when there is none (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Avoid extra processing of MarkupDecl when EOF (Hugh Davenport),<br />
- Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Add missing Null check in xmlParseExternalEntityPrivate (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
- Fix a bug in CData error handling in the push parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Fix a bug on name parsing at the end of current input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Fix the spurious ID already defined error (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Fix previous change to node sort order (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix a self assignment issue raised by clang (Scott Graham),<br />
- Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Do not process encoding values if the declaration if broken (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Silence clang's -Wunknown-attribute (Michael Catanzaro),<br />
- xmlMemUsed is not thread-safe (Martin von Gagern),<br />
- Fix support for except in nameclasses (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Fix order of root nodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Allow attributes on descendant-or-self axis (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Fix the fix to Windows locking (Steve Nairn),<br />
- Fix timsort invariant loop re: Envisage article (Christopher Swenson),<br />
- Don't add IDs in xmlSetTreeDoc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Account for ID attributes in xmlSetTreeDoc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Remove various unused value assignments (Philip Withnall),<br />
- Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Revert "Missing initialization for the catalog module" (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Improvements:<br />
- Reuse xmlHaltParser() where it makes sense (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- xmlStopParser reset errNo (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Reenable xz support by default (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Recover unescaped less-than character in HTML recovery parsing (Daniel Veillard),<br />
- Allow HTML serializer to output HTML5 DOCTYPE (Shaun McCance),<br />
- Regression test for bug #695699 (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Add a couple of XPath tests (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
- Add Python 3 rpm subpackage (Tomas Radej),<br />
- libxml2-config.cmake.in: update include directories (Samuel Martin),<br />
- Adding example from bugs 738805 to regression tests (Daniel Veillard)<br />
- </li>
-
- <li>Cleanups:<br />
- </li>
-</ul><h3>2.9.2: Oct 16 2014</h3><ul>
+to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.9.2: Oct 16 2014</h3><ul>
<li>Security:<br />
Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),<br />
CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)<br />
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