diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index 2a68361..ac2cbaf 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz
 libxml2-2.7.0.tar.gz
 libxml2-2.7.1.tar.gz
 libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz
+libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/CVE-2008-4225.patch b/CVE-2008-4225.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0666795..0000000
--- a/CVE-2008-4225.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- tree.c.orig	2008-10-31 18:14:00.000000000 -0700
-+++ tree.c	2008-10-31 18:14:35.000000000 -0700
-@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
- #include "libxml.h"
- 
- #include <string.h> /* for memset() only ! */
--
-+#include <limits.h>
- #ifdef HAVE_CTYPE_H
- #include <ctype.h>
- #endif
-@@ -6996,7 +6996,13 @@
- 	case XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_DOUBLEIT:
- 	    /*take care of empty case*/
- 	    newSize = (buf->size ? buf->size*2 : size + 10);
--	    while (size > newSize) newSize *= 2;
-+	    while (size > newSize) {
-+	        if (newSize > UINT_MAX / 2) {
-+	            xmlTreeErrMemory("growing buffer");
-+	            return 0;
-+	        }
-+	        newSize *= 2;
-+	    }
- 	    break;
- 	case XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_EXACT:
- 	    newSize = size+10;
diff --git a/CVE-2008-4226.patch b/CVE-2008-4226.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 79e808b..0000000
--- a/CVE-2008-4226.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
---- SAX2.c.orig	2008-01-25 08:10:04.000000000 -0500
-+++ SAX2.c	2008-11-07 05:07:34.000000000 -0500
-@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
- #include "libxml.h"
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <string.h>
-+#include <limits.h>
- #include <libxml/xmlmemory.h>
- #include <libxml/tree.h>
- #include <libxml/parser.h>
-@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@
- #include <libxml/HTMLtree.h>
- #include <libxml/globals.h>
- 
-+/* Define SIZE_T_MAX unless defined through <limits.h>. */
-+#ifndef SIZE_T_MAX
-+# define SIZE_T_MAX     ((size_t)-1)
-+#endif /* !SIZE_T_MAX */
-+
- /* #define DEBUG_SAX2 */
- /* #define DEBUG_SAX2_TREE */
- 
-@@ -2445,9 +2451,14 @@
- 	               (xmlDictOwns(ctxt->dict, lastChild->content))) {
- 		lastChild->content = xmlStrdup(lastChild->content);
- 	    }
-+	    if ((size_t)ctxt->nodelen > SIZE_T_MAX - (size_t)len || 
-+	        (size_t)ctxt->nodemem + (size_t)len > SIZE_T_MAX / 2) {
-+	            xmlSAX2ErrMemory(ctxt, "xmlSAX2Characters overflow prevented");
-+	            return;
-+	    }
- 	    if (ctxt->nodelen + len >= ctxt->nodemem) {
- 		xmlChar *newbuf;
--		int size;
-+		size_t size;
- 
- 		size = ctxt->nodemem + len;
- 		size *= 2;
diff --git a/libxml2.spec b/libxml2.spec
index a069152..71ded79 100644
--- a/libxml2.spec
+++ b/libxml2.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support
 Name: libxml2
-Version: 2.7.2
-Release: 7%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
+Version: 2.7.3
+Release: 1%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
 License: MIT
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Source: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 BuildRequires: python python-devel zlib-devel pkgconfig
 URL: http://xmlsoft.org/
 Patch0: libxml2-multilib.patch
-Patch1: CVE-2008-4225.patch
-Patch2: CVE-2008-4226.patch
 
 %description
 This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support 
@@ -69,8 +67,6 @@ at parse time or later once the document has been modified.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1
-%patch1 -p0
-%patch2 -p0
 
 %build
 %configure
@@ -145,6 +141,12 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 %doc doc/python.html
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jan 18 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.7.3-1
+- new release 2.7.3
+- limit default max size of text nodes
+- special parser mode for PHP
+- bug fixes and more compiler checks
+
 * Wed Dec  3 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm@gmail.com> - 2.7.2-7
 - Pull back into Python 2.6
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d73196d..3f929d0 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-dc43ff7ae6aded45f578c87b7b0c8766  libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz
+8f4fda3969237c2a33bdb1583b5d06b2  libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz