This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2021-3537: NULL pointer dereference in     valid.c:xmlValidBuildAContentModel (bsc#1185698)     CVE-2021-3518: Fixed a use after free in     xinclude.c:xmlXIncludeDoProcess (bsc#1185408).

CVE-2021-3517: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in entities.c:xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1185410).

CVE-2021-3516: Fixed a use after free in entities.c:xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1185409).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2021:1658-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149807

Version 1.5