Hi Don,

Am 24.08.2018 um 06:56 schrieb Don Lewis:
> We currently bundle libxml2 version 2.9.4 with trunk.  That version of
> libxml2 has four CVEs.  Fortunately they can only be used to cause a
> crash (DoS) instead of something worse.
>
> There is one CVE for version 2.9.8, but the vulnerability (an infinite
> loop DoS) can only be triggered if libxml2 is built with lzma support,
> which we do not.
>
> While here also upgrade libxslt to the latest version since both
> libraries come from the same upstream and work together.
>
> Light testing on Windows and CentOS 6 didn't turn up any problems.

My Windows build based on r1838788 and your patch applied was successful.
First test show no anomalies.

Regards,
   Matthias

>
> OpenOffice on FreeBSD uses the system versions of libxml, version 2.9.7,
> and libxslt, version 1.1.32.  No problems have been reported with those
> versions.
>
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