diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2015-8241.patch b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2015-8241.patch
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+From ab2b9a93ff19cedde7befbf2fcc48c6e352b6cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Hugh Davenport <hugh@allthethings.co.nz>
+Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:40:49 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Avoid extra processing of MarkupDecl when EOF
+
+For https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756263
+
+One place where ctxt->instate == XML_PARSER_EOF whic was set up
+by entity detection issues doesn't get noticed, and even overrided
+
+Upstream-status: Backport
+
+https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=ab2b9a93ff19cedde7befbf2fcc48c6e352b6cbe
+
+CVE: CVE-2015-8241
+Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
+
+---
+ parser.c | 8 ++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
+
+Index: libxml2-2.9.2/parser.c
+===================================================================
+--- libxml2-2.9.2.orig/parser.c
++++ libxml2-2.9.2/parser.c
+@@ -6999,6 +6999,14 @@ xmlParseMarkupDecl(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt
+ 	    xmlParsePI(ctxt);
+ 	}
+     }
++
++    /*
++     * detect requirement to exit there and act accordingly
++     * and avoid having instate overriden later on
++     */
++    if (ctxt->instate == XML_PARSER_EOF)
++        return;
++
+     /*
+      * This is only for internal subset. On external entities,
+      * the replacement is done before parsing stage