Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1292-01 – The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. Security Fix: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.