Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: libxml2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652325
Title:
Libxml2 2.9.3 fails to parse multi-byte character in large CDATA
section that is split across buffer
Status in libxml2 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Ubuntu 16.04 packages libxml2 version 2.9.3*, which contains a
regression documented here:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=4f8606c13cb7f2684839f850b83de5ce647d3ca7
Full release notes of 2.9.4 can be seen here:
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
The bug will affect XML push parser that fails with bogus UTF-8
encoding error when multi-byte character in large CDATA section is
split across buffer, which can be quite common.
As Xenial is an LTS version and this bug is quite *critical*, I wonder
if we should provide an update to fix this one. If I remember
correctly, we're not supposed to update to a newer version a given
package for a given version of Ubuntu, but as this version of Ubuntu
will be used in many servers in the coming years and XML parsing is
quite a common task, it may help a lot of developers to have a
backported fix of this issue.
Let me know you if you need more information.
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