Re: Another XML build issue

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Can you look to see if Ubuntu is carrying some
> distro-specific patch that affects this?

Here's what is in the log for the change that I think is the one that
came through today:

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libxml2 (2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6) trusty-security; urgency=medium

* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via entity expansion issue
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-5312.patch: properly exit when entity
expansion is detected in parser.c.
- CVE-2015-5312
* SECURITY UPDATE: heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-7497.patch: check offset in dict.c.
- CVE-2015-7497
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via encoding conversion failures
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-7498.patch: avoid processing entities after
encoding conversion failures in parser.c.
- CVE-2015-7498
* SECURITY UPDATE: out of bounds read in xmlGROW
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-7499-1.patch: add xmlHaltParser() to stop the
parser in parser.c.
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-7499-2.patch: check input in parser.c.
- CVE-2015-7499
* SECURITY UPDATE: out of bounds read in xmlParseMisc
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-7500.patch: check entity boundaries in
parser.c.
- CVE-2015-7500
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via extra processing of MarkupDecl
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-8241.patch: add extra EOF check in parser.c.
- CVE-2015-8241
* SECURITY UPDATE: buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-8242.patch: use pointer in the input in
HTMLparser.c.
- CVE-2015-8242
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via encoding failures
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-8317-1.patch: do not process encoding values
if the declaration is broken in parser.c.
- debian/patches/CVE-2015-8317-2.patch: fail parsing if the encoding
conversion failed in parser.c.
- CVE-2015-8317

-- Marc Deslauriers <marc(dot)deslauriers(at)ubuntu(dot)com> Wed, 09 Dec 2015
12:00:30 -0500

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I don't know how that compares to other distros...

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