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MDVSA-2009:316-1 -- Mandriva expat

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:300084Date: (C)2012-01-07   (M)2024-02-19
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




A vulnerability has been found and corrected in expat: The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720 . Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers This update provides a solution to these vulnerabilities. Update: This vulnerability was discovered in the bundled expat code in various softwares besides expat itself. As a precaution the affected softwares has preemptively been patched to prevent presumptive future exploitations of this issue.

Platform:
Mandriva Linux 2010.0
Mandriva Linux 2009.0
Mandriva Linux 2009.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Product:
expat
Reference:
MDVSA-2009:316-1
CVE-2009-3560
CVE    1
CVE-2009-3560
CPE    4
cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0
cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0
cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.1
cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0
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