Issued:
2010-01-06
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2010:0008 - perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML bug fix update

Synopsis

perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages that fix various bugs are available.

Description

XML::SAX is a SAX parser access API for Perl. It includes classes and APIs required for implementing SAX drivers, along with a factory class for returning any SAX parser installed on the user's system. XML::LibXML provides a library for working with XML files.

These updated perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages provide the following bug fixes:

  • UTF-8 would not be represented correctly by the perl-XML-SAX parser because the Unicode version of XML::SAX::PurePerl::Reader::switch_encoding_string() used Encode::from_to() that did not set the Perl internal UTF-8 flag. This bug has been corrected by replacing the use of Encode::from_to() with the use of Encode::decode(). (BZ#475250)

  • When upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, a later version or upgrading the individual perl-XML-SAX-0.14 package to perl-XML-SAX-0.14-6, error messages concerning the perl-XML-SAX package would be logged in the /root/upgrade.log file. These messages occurred because of a missing file or file data within ParserDetails.ini. This file has been restored to the perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages with this update. (BZ#289061, BZ#538855, BZ#536819)

Warning, both perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML packages must be updated together in one step. Updating these packages separately can result in the configuration file ParserDetails.ini becoming broken.

All users of perl-XML-SAX and perl-XML-LibXML are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-6.src.rpm
  • perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-6.s390x.rpm
  • perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-6.i386.rpm
  • perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-6.x86_64.rpm
  • perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-6.ppc.rpm
  • perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-6.ia64.rpm
  • perl-XML-SAX-0.14-8.src.rpm
  • perl-XML-SAX-0.14-8.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information