USN-890-1 -- expat vulnerabilities| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700131 | Date: (C)2011-01-28 (M)2024-02-29 |
| Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. It was discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed UTF-8 sequences. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash
| Platform: |
| Ubuntu 8.04 |
| Ubuntu 8.10 |
| Ubuntu 9.10 |
| Ubuntu 6.06 |
| Ubuntu 9.04 |
