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Mandriva: 2010:243: libxml2

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in libxml2: libxml2 before 2.7.8 reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application [More...]

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libxml(3)						     Library Functions Manual							 libxml(3)

NAME
libxml - library used to parse XML files DESCRIPTION
The libxml library is used to parse XML files. Its internal document repesentation is as close as possible to the DOM (Document Object Model) interface, an API for accessing XML or HTML structured documents. The libxml library also has a SAX-like interface, which is designed to be compatible with that of another XML parser library called expat. NOTE: SAX, the Simple API for XML, is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing, developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, currently hosted by OASIS. The expat library is a XML 1.0 parser written in C, which aims to be fully conforming. It is currently not a validating XML processor. The libxml library now includes a nearly complete XPath implementation. The XPath (XML Path Language) is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. The libxml library exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and html. FILES
/usr/lib/libxml2.so shareable library /usr/bin/xmlcatalog binary application for parsing and manipulating XML or SGML catalog files /usr/bin/xmllint binary application for parsing XML files /usr/bin/xml2-config binary application for printing library configuration /usr/include/libxml2 header files AUTHORS
Daniel Veillard (daniel@veillard.com). If you download and install this package please send the author email. Manual page by Ziying Sher- win (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine. SEE ALSO
xmlcatalog(1), xmllint(1), xml2-config(1). NOTES
Source for libxml is available in the SUNWlxmlS package. Documentation for libxml is available on-line at http://www.xmlsoft.org/ 23 May 2002 libxml(3)