[Secure-testing-team] Bug#883790: libxm2: CVE-2017-15412: use-after-free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredicate

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libxml2
Version: 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libxml2.

CVE-2017-15412[0]:
use after free

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15412
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15412
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160
[2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=0f3b843b3534784ef57a4f9b874238aa1fda5a73

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore