Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2015-3451 (2015-04-23)

The _clone function does not properly set the expand_entities option, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via crafted XML data to the (1) new or (2) load_xml function.

CVE-2017-10672 (2015-04-23)

Use-after-free in the XML-LibXML module through 2.0129 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call.

Changes for version 1.66

  • Perl-thread support contributed by Tim Brody [rt.cpan.org #31945]
  • fix [rt.cpan.org #30610] possible segmentation fault when importing nodes from a document to an element created with XML::LibXML::Element->new
  • fix [rt.cpan.org #30261] Segmentation fault when extracting elements from an XML chunk
  • make Makefile.PL require Perl 5.6.1
  • minor fixes and additions to the documentation
  • portability patch from [rt.cpan.org #29627]
  • give registered Ns declarations precedence over document-specific ones in XML::LibXML::XPathContext; fixes [rt.cpan.org #29650]

Documentation

XML::LibXML Attribute Class
XML::LibXML Class for CDATA Sections
XML::LibXML Comment Class
XML::LibXML DOM Implementation
XML::LibXML DOM Document Class
XML::LibXML's DOM L2 Document Fragment Implementation
XML::LibXML DTD Handling
XML::LibXML Class for Element Nodes
XML::LibXML Class for Input Callbacks
XML::LibXML Namespace Implementation
Abstract Base Class of XML::LibXML Nodes
XML::LibXML Processing Instructions
Parsing XML Data with XML::LibXML
RelaxNG Schema Validation
XML Schema Validation
XML::LibXML Class for Text Nodes

Modules

Perl Binding for libxml2
Boolean true/false values
Simple string values.
a list of XML document nodes
Simple numeric values.
XML::LibXML::Reader - interface to libxml2 pull parser
XML::LibXML direct SAX parser
Building DOM trees from SAX events.
Generate SAX events from a LibXML tree
XPath Evaluation

Provides

in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Generator.pm
in lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm