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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1921-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Giuseppe Iuculano
October 28, 2009                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : expat
Vulnerability  : denial of service
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CVE-2009-2625
Debian Bug     : 551936


Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library,
when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an
application using the library.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.95.8-3.4+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.1-4+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem will be fixed soon.


We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- -------------------------------

Debian (oldstable)
- ------------------

Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:   318349 aff487543845a82fe262e6e2922b4c8e
      Size/MD5 checksum:   413057 b78006808401dff164db95fd8f2499f0
      Size/MD5 checksum:      711 0a87419bbdae53aeacaf08eef449f8b3

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   143212 7b134dfafbbc9bc66ccff9dc2eeff47f
      Size/MD5 checksum:    69412 9d0a43d446692ef43add0360db26c256
      Size/MD5 checksum:    22316 999371a25e7d944716db206d1c4e10cc
      Size/MD5 checksum:    61192 521bb25d4e511f26f63a62c194acf6b0

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   133646 d6b90212e771f641c21cee38ae37bd08
      Size/MD5 checksum:    56488 494fe3d0c4ac2c85b8b9f2d6ff9803dc
      Size/MD5 checksum:    21488 6125318bcc858833651fc29e003ada22
      Size/MD5 checksum:    64626 5704af163a7c90f06c83da1587c20b16

arm architecture (ARM)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    49414 70ad1f420deebf55461455ec52ba9a2e
      Size/MD5 checksum:   125270 cdfc0a34dad99c9c85c8f11cdada5884
      Size/MD5 checksum:    19760 cfa4b1b4005647b15b22730ede7b9a05
      Size/MD5 checksum:    57582 52acb1f317a52ef9e4429381dce93ba7

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    64780 f9c37fed892741dbd9c27a54e6f8c147
      Size/MD5 checksum:   151792 a8add5beda89448ec1b1584a5f055216
      Size/MD5 checksum:    22646 6729356bed0d898b6660de36bb8a226b
      Size/MD5 checksum:    72970 3b0d2aa031bc6fe388daa5ee8fcc6da6

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    54964 e2df0e10b8466ca1f5534145f432b4fe
      Size/MD5 checksum:    21034 6e8dbc3e542af0a3c9b6970014c7e5e4
      Size/MD5 checksum:   128180 ad28064754c7f1fb08035ad626647448
      Size/MD5 checksum:    63076 0554efb1bbae1faa50d1c5c5a0038dfc

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   164942 71ba03af83170f1efb508073c3ace2bc
      Size/MD5 checksum:    25042 f1ce83568dccc86afac7ca26501df87e
      Size/MD5 checksum:    87370 bc39d0e16d8f274834b97ff798620c2c
      Size/MD5 checksum:    95842 16ea105cb9be4e8f34f477942e833d3d

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:    64688 a0490288615044b9e71d2287db1e3b55
      Size/MD5 checksum:   141886 91a4ed2068294c45ccfa98e17330b858
      Size/MD5 checksum:    21556 e9805d4363f0380bbad732c0889e812f
      Size/MD5 checksum:    56622 9fa9d8b88bf0936795aedfbad1a498ab

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:    21614 4038b82ec3347f53ad7435cd9dbdee5d
      Size/MD5 checksum:    56206 be281b9712278314dde05df7dda3b9a1
      Size/MD5 checksum:   139468 48e8b40dc5101ff8255cec88b0c5a034
      Size/MD5 checksum:    64316 e59d24b012bd3d57ec18a8184801a901

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    67616 a4935eb9cf357861e6d22af5d81ca4de
      Size/MD5 checksum:    22912 6f1c43294a9bc041f2024bf86a5a242b
      Size/MD5 checksum:   148128 b7a3a1f85a29bee92889ca55a5d43552
      Size/MD5 checksum:    59454 dbe0efc19ee40ebf818e848ea4de363b

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   132490 c9cd7b6caa0c5a04e8f715132b0eb59b
      Size/MD5 checksum:    21388 5ee9487ec0ca34361d9b8cf5830c12f4
      Size/MD5 checksum:    56752 1b352f981450c98f8c00bf4baa2078f9
      Size/MD5 checksum:    64868 f9e54e5d2551451d31a763b13a2c364a

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    59802 37e1cad658801c5026fba0ca514ad957
      Size/MD5 checksum:   128542 7229bcce28eba3eaecc264bfce901a53
      Size/MD5 checksum:    20364 6eff0d9ceb56cd2f8b2633fe54cbe5ab
      Size/MD5 checksum:    51888 cadd0f53bb0f10e3ba8571f515216231


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
- --------------------------------

Debian (stable)
- ---------------

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:   446456 ee8b492592568805593f81f8cdf2a04c
      Size/MD5 checksum:   133411 b5dc224140f8bcdfeab899c9a2aeaf4f
      Size/MD5 checksum:     1446 4f069e17ff00f0b1fb810560bce5db05

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    24564 7f87bd7e3acb7fa2d22013721fdfa559
      Size/MD5 checksum:    62906 f95bc5aa62d8879afbd425c8fcf6b181
      Size/MD5 checksum:   135812 e4720cf53555b1011a9bb42253199cc2
      Size/MD5 checksum:   221676 826650f73b4d4969d3464d02af036adf

arm architecture (ARM)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   116376 536b22408ff81447bd9a984e4bc756e9
      Size/MD5 checksum:   203596 b46fc0f701c2dd02fbb70a6cae347f47
      Size/MD5 checksum:    52710 d4913705e34f828e76b27019c10337a4
      Size/MD5 checksum:    21998 c77c0e795b5af5d9538388ef8d1a25d8

armel architecture (ARM EABI)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   118426 cf02b38a12f7e8657f49bd8a7b0c2b6e
      Size/MD5 checksum:    22438 673a31f0e726110538bf5d6d53a3c282
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54246 8b263ca48bedce9acdc9d0c4101bf8f9
      Size/MD5 checksum:   212288 b50fa35fc55675d8ed42b39b625fb61a

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   148612 b2e989c2d41537b7eded10ef12bdbbf5
      Size/MD5 checksum:   263104 e0b07e6ec6a833717f2ebf6a0a0b9762
      Size/MD5 checksum:    24772 4ce5b792eb6762d8e8cd26df498f1f66
      Size/MD5 checksum:    69464 8810e4ff889f120e4f51dfba788c1118

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   136372 910e7dc6c260cb7061b100738d8a1637
      Size/MD5 checksum:   131890 5091b56525caf7de535b6d5ca76c8f8d
      Size/MD5 checksum:   166714 6371c41f37ac8c15f9c311d6466a263c
      Size/MD5 checksum:    23152 d1e24f461306e329e74b0314a549dad6
      Size/MD5 checksum:   210960 d45ab14f22aedda35b035e608cba7709
      Size/MD5 checksum:    60860 73e491d5110ed35e4c005d244669e766

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    98272 1cc10948dd1323607865151a0591adad
      Size/MD5 checksum:   291648 b2f7fe1850cf5fe6050f96005da1748d
      Size/MD5 checksum:    27380 2fd76be3636984916917998e81a4b9f3
      Size/MD5 checksum:   206108 397ec5dfd3f83c34fc39ff39ae8148fa

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:    61228 ea9ee5d1bca8efc3f4c0f0d2e9bb3930
      Size/MD5 checksum:    23738 38e25159f47889c901a3757af18f31c2
      Size/MD5 checksum:   234326 6b10c5a87366da9075eb433495ddc8e4
      Size/MD5 checksum:   132730 9949f7271e2ad5755721403b36a9c154

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   224082 c45b4b489d8fd0325929f892ea39004c
      Size/MD5 checksum:    23774 bf5132a28a20a53aeef6bf12f2aa36c9
      Size/MD5 checksum:    60670 1c234db94cfc29fa5cb21e28cbeac6dc
      Size/MD5 checksum:   131658 06d1a814da4a66b807e3525a29f96e76

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    26826 8a7cd66d04cbbd0c3247bcca5182c951
      Size/MD5 checksum:   143872 a275b856d11ac3ce5189b65017e952e3
      Size/MD5 checksum:    64980 dbbf31280a7a727516fca9179da29263
      Size/MD5 checksum:   156368 7cca3cdd70382e3ed1d4d8d8217c4f45
      Size/MD5 checksum:   140358 8bd7bec1ea5c601a475f2e36a98c18cd
      Size/MD5 checksum:   278806 830816c1e396fb4d69696e244d785c44

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

      Size/MD5 checksum:    24124 27b2ea41753a6576aaebe994f8833a60
      Size/MD5 checksum:   220192 813bf8bf832f774b4c5f3120ea48911a
      Size/MD5 checksum:    61928 af19fa9ec752837bfe87e398a466b7ea
      Size/MD5 checksum:   134458 b2af0c017b461dff94aeded9f70ded94
      Size/MD5 checksum:   173038 0dd72e1ad7913c685a25a88d6565fe39
      Size/MD5 checksum:   134430 389c55e7e57db27e58d9a350b2b3dec7

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   125766 7fe69d7a65dcd222370f136ec87c5cec
      Size/MD5 checksum:   218412 e9dba766ea171c5ed3e47846f5f9d1ce
      Size/MD5 checksum:   172190 16d5b9d3449e374ab39ce1109ae974d5
      Size/MD5 checksum:    23126 c01eb7581f2fcb7a90becd0c37cffe5b
      Size/MD5 checksum:   133186 8c74fc1afc688092bee0516283d42537
      Size/MD5 checksum:    57658 409dcc8cd16d56d57a70b7eb8797e052


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

Debian: DSA-1921-1: New expat packages fix denial of service

October 28, 2009
Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library, when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library

Summary

Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library,
when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an
application using the library.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.95.8-3.4+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.1-4+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem will be fixed soon.


We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
- ------------------

Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 318349 aff487543845a82fe262e6e2922b4c8e
Size/MD5 checksum: 413057 b78006808401dff164db95fd8f2499f0
Size/MD5 checksum: 711 0a87419bbdae53aeacaf08eef449f8b3

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 143212 7b134dfafbbc9bc66ccff9dc2eeff47f
Size/MD5 checksum: 69412 9d0a43d446692ef43add0360db26c256
Size/MD5 checksum: 22316 999371a25e7d944716db206d1c4e10cc
Size/MD5 checksum: 61192 521bb25d4e511f26f63a62c194acf6b0

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

Size/MD5 checksum: 133646 d6b90212e771f641c21cee38ae37bd08
Size/MD5 checksum: 56488 494fe3d0c4ac2c85b8b9f2d6ff9803dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 21488 6125318bcc858833651fc29e003ada22
Size/MD5 checksum: 64626 5704af163a7c90f06c83da1587c20b16

arm architecture (ARM)

Size/MD5 checksum: 49414 70ad1f420deebf55461455ec52ba9a2e
Size/MD5 checksum: 125270 cdfc0a34dad99c9c85c8f11cdada5884
Size/MD5 checksum: 19760 cfa4b1b4005647b15b22730ede7b9a05
Size/MD5 checksum: 57582 52acb1f317a52ef9e4429381dce93ba7

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

Size/MD5 checksum: 64780 f9c37fed892741dbd9c27a54e6f8c147
Size/MD5 checksum: 151792 a8add5beda89448ec1b1584a5f055216
Size/MD5 checksum: 22646 6729356bed0d898b6660de36bb8a226b
Size/MD5 checksum: 72970 3b0d2aa031bc6fe388daa5ee8fcc6da6

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

Size/MD5 checksum: 54964 e2df0e10b8466ca1f5534145f432b4fe
Size/MD5 checksum: 21034 6e8dbc3e542af0a3c9b6970014c7e5e4
Size/MD5 checksum: 128180 ad28064754c7f1fb08035ad626647448
Size/MD5 checksum: 63076 0554efb1bbae1faa50d1c5c5a0038dfc

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

Size/MD5 checksum: 164942 71ba03af83170f1efb508073c3ace2bc
Size/MD5 checksum: 25042 f1ce83568dccc86afac7ca26501df87e
Size/MD5 checksum: 87370 bc39d0e16d8f274834b97ff798620c2c
Size/MD5 checksum: 95842 16ea105cb9be4e8f34f477942e833d3d

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

Size/MD5 checksum: 64688 a0490288615044b9e71d2287db1e3b55
Size/MD5 checksum: 141886 91a4ed2068294c45ccfa98e17330b858
Size/MD5 checksum: 21556 e9805d4363f0380bbad732c0889e812f
Size/MD5 checksum: 56622 9fa9d8b88bf0936795aedfbad1a498ab

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

Size/MD5 checksum: 21614 4038b82ec3347f53ad7435cd9dbdee5d
Size/MD5 checksum: 56206 be281b9712278314dde05df7dda3b9a1
Size/MD5 checksum: 139468 48e8b40dc5101ff8255cec88b0c5a034
Size/MD5 checksum: 64316 e59d24b012bd3d57ec18a8184801a901

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

Size/MD5 checksum: 67616 a4935eb9cf357861e6d22af5d81ca4de
Size/MD5 checksum: 22912 6f1c43294a9bc041f2024bf86a5a242b
Size/MD5 checksum: 148128 b7a3a1f85a29bee92889ca55a5d43552
Size/MD5 checksum: 59454 dbe0efc19ee40ebf818e848ea4de363b

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

Size/MD5 checksum: 132490 c9cd7b6caa0c5a04e8f715132b0eb59b
Size/MD5 checksum: 21388 5ee9487ec0ca34361d9b8cf5830c12f4
Size/MD5 checksum: 56752 1b352f981450c98f8c00bf4baa2078f9
Size/MD5 checksum: 64868 f9e54e5d2551451d31a763b13a2c364a

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

Size/MD5 checksum: 59802 37e1cad658801c5026fba0ca514ad957
Size/MD5 checksum: 128542 7229bcce28eba3eaecc264bfce901a53
Size/MD5 checksum: 20364 6eff0d9ceb56cd2f8b2633fe54cbe5ab
Size/MD5 checksum: 51888 cadd0f53bb0f10e3ba8571f515216231


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Debian (stable)
- ---------------

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 446456 ee8b492592568805593f81f8cdf2a04c
Size/MD5 checksum: 133411 b5dc224140f8bcdfeab899c9a2aeaf4f
Size/MD5 checksum: 1446 4f069e17ff00f0b1fb810560bce5db05

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 24564 7f87bd7e3acb7fa2d22013721fdfa559
Size/MD5 checksum: 62906 f95bc5aa62d8879afbd425c8fcf6b181
Size/MD5 checksum: 135812 e4720cf53555b1011a9bb42253199cc2
Size/MD5 checksum: 221676 826650f73b4d4969d3464d02af036adf

arm architecture (ARM)

Size/MD5 checksum: 116376 536b22408ff81447bd9a984e4bc756e9
Size/MD5 checksum: 203596 b46fc0f701c2dd02fbb70a6cae347f47
Size/MD5 checksum: 52710 d4913705e34f828e76b27019c10337a4
Size/MD5 checksum: 21998 c77c0e795b5af5d9538388ef8d1a25d8

armel architecture (ARM EABI)

Size/MD5 checksum: 118426 cf02b38a12f7e8657f49bd8a7b0c2b6e
Size/MD5 checksum: 22438 673a31f0e726110538bf5d6d53a3c282
Size/MD5 checksum: 54246 8b263ca48bedce9acdc9d0c4101bf8f9
Size/MD5 checksum: 212288 b50fa35fc55675d8ed42b39b625fb61a

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

Size/MD5 checksum: 148612 b2e989c2d41537b7eded10ef12bdbbf5
Size/MD5 checksum: 263104 e0b07e6ec6a833717f2ebf6a0a0b9762
Size/MD5 checksum: 24772 4ce5b792eb6762d8e8cd26df498f1f66
Size/MD5 checksum: 69464 8810e4ff889f120e4f51dfba788c1118

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

Size/MD5 checksum: 136372 910e7dc6c260cb7061b100738d8a1637
Size/MD5 checksum: 131890 5091b56525caf7de535b6d5ca76c8f8d
Size/MD5 checksum: 166714 6371c41f37ac8c15f9c311d6466a263c
Size/MD5 checksum: 23152 d1e24f461306e329e74b0314a549dad6
Size/MD5 checksum: 210960 d45ab14f22aedda35b035e608cba7709
Size/MD5 checksum: 60860 73e491d5110ed35e4c005d244669e766

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

Size/MD5 checksum: 98272 1cc10948dd1323607865151a0591adad
Size/MD5 checksum: 291648 b2f7fe1850cf5fe6050f96005da1748d
Size/MD5 checksum: 27380 2fd76be3636984916917998e81a4b9f3
Size/MD5 checksum: 206108 397ec5dfd3f83c34fc39ff39ae8148fa

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

Size/MD5 checksum: 61228 ea9ee5d1bca8efc3f4c0f0d2e9bb3930
Size/MD5 checksum: 23738 38e25159f47889c901a3757af18f31c2
Size/MD5 checksum: 234326 6b10c5a87366da9075eb433495ddc8e4
Size/MD5 checksum: 132730 9949f7271e2ad5755721403b36a9c154

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

Size/MD5 checksum: 224082 c45b4b489d8fd0325929f892ea39004c
Size/MD5 checksum: 23774 bf5132a28a20a53aeef6bf12f2aa36c9
Size/MD5 checksum: 60670 1c234db94cfc29fa5cb21e28cbeac6dc
Size/MD5 checksum: 131658 06d1a814da4a66b807e3525a29f96e76

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

Size/MD5 checksum: 26826 8a7cd66d04cbbd0c3247bcca5182c951
Size/MD5 checksum: 143872 a275b856d11ac3ce5189b65017e952e3
Size/MD5 checksum: 64980 dbbf31280a7a727516fca9179da29263
Size/MD5 checksum: 156368 7cca3cdd70382e3ed1d4d8d8217c4f45
Size/MD5 checksum: 140358 8bd7bec1ea5c601a475f2e36a98c18cd
Size/MD5 checksum: 278806 830816c1e396fb4d69696e244d785c44

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

Size/MD5 checksum: 24124 27b2ea41753a6576aaebe994f8833a60
Size/MD5 checksum: 220192 813bf8bf832f774b4c5f3120ea48911a
Size/MD5 checksum: 61928 af19fa9ec752837bfe87e398a466b7ea
Size/MD5 checksum: 134458 b2af0c017b461dff94aeded9f70ded94
Size/MD5 checksum: 173038 0dd72e1ad7913c685a25a88d6565fe39
Size/MD5 checksum: 134430 389c55e7e57db27e58d9a350b2b3dec7

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

Size/MD5 checksum: 125766 7fe69d7a65dcd222370f136ec87c5cec
Size/MD5 checksum: 218412 e9dba766ea171c5ed3e47846f5f9d1ce
Size/MD5 checksum: 172190 16d5b9d3449e374ab39ce1109ae974d5
Size/MD5 checksum: 23126 c01eb7581f2fcb7a90becd0c37cffe5b
Size/MD5 checksum: 133186 8c74fc1afc688092bee0516283d42537
Size/MD5 checksum: 57658 409dcc8cd16d56d57a70b7eb8797e052


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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