Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1446 - perl-XML-SAX bug fix update

Synopsis

perl-XML-SAX bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated perl-XML-SAX package that fixes various bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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.

This updated perl-XML-SAX package includes fixes for the following bugs:

• Parsing a long XML document with the XML::Simple API took an unacceptably long time if the XML::SAX parser implementation was available. The XML::SAX parser implementation was not optimized for large string variables (e.g. 2 MB). The XML::SAX parser has been updated to handle the reading of large strings in a more efficient way. This update enables long XML documents to be parsed in a more reasonable time. (BZ#641735)

• XML documents which have a whitespace character as the first character were not handled correctly. A warning, "Unable to recognize encoding of this document", was printed. With this update, encoding detection code has been changed to recognize XML documents with leading whitespace as a document without an XML declaration and with a default encoding. The warning is no longer printed as such documents are valid documents with encoding detection rules conforming to documents without an XML declaration. (BZ#744200)

All users of perl-XML-SAX are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these bugs.

Solution

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

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• perl-XML-SAX-0.14-11.src.rpm
• perl-XML-SAX-0.14-11.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 641735
• This content is not included.BZ - 744200

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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