EMANE (0.8.1, 0.9.1) may stop working for you after installing updates to libxml2 -- as pointed out by Hasnain on the emane-users mailing list (below).
Here is a patch to emanegentransportxml that will turn off XML validation: https://code.google.com/p/coreemu/issues/detail?id=247 -Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:emane-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Hasnain Lakhani > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [emane-users] emanegentransportxml broken with latest libxml2 update > > Hi, > > Our tests started failing on Friday. We use EMANE 0.7.4. > > Debugging showed that EMANE uses external parameters entities in the XML > files; specifically the DTD links (I believe). We were getting errors on > files that worked perfectly fine previously. The errors would be of the > following form: > > > validity error : No declaration for element param > validity error : No declaration for attribute name of element param > validity error : No declaration for attribute value of element param > > > libxml2 had a security update on Thursday: > > libxml2 (2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7) precise-security; urgency=medium > > * SECURITY UPDATE: resource exhaustion via external parameter entities > - parser.c: do not fetch external parameter entities. > - > https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9cd1c3cfbd32655d60572c0a413e0 > 17260c854df > - CVE-2014-0191 > -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 08 May 2014 14:30:38 -0400 > After downgrading libxml down to 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.6 we noticed that > emanegentransportxml works fine again. > > This behaviour should be fixed so that it works again with the latest > libxml2. I'll be happy to provide further information if needed. > > Hasnain _______________________________________________ emane-users mailing list [email protected] http://pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/mailman/listinfo/emane-users
