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Fedora: 10 Security Advisory - CVE-2009-2412 Allocator Alignment Fix

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 10 patch tackles CVE-2009-2412 by enhancing memory allocator alignment, affecting apr-util component.
CVE-2009-2412: allocator alignment fixes Full details here: https://downloads.apache.org/apr/patches/

Summary

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a

free library of C data structures and routines. This library

contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support

for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more.

Update Information:

CVE-2009-2412: allocator alignment fixes Full details here: https://downloads.apache.org/apr/patches/

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora memory management allocator alignment CVE-2009-2412

Change Log

* Thu Aug 6 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.3.9-1 - bump up to 1.3.9 - CVE-2009-2412 - allocator alignment fixes * Mon Jun 29 2009 Joe Orton 1.3.7-3 - fix files list * Mon Jun 29 2009 Joe Orton 1.3.7-2 - don't build DBM code as a DSO (#508424) * Mon Jun 8 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.3.7-1 - bump up to 1.3.7 - CVE-2009-0023 - "billion laughs" fix of apr_xml_* interface

References


[ 1 ] Bug #515698 - CVE-2009-2412 apr, apr-util: Integer overflows in memory pool (apr) and relocatable memory (apr-util) management https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515698

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update apr-util' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: apr-util
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.3.9
Release: 1.fc10
URL: https://apr.apache.org/
Summary: Apache Portable Runtime Utility library

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora memory management allocator alignment CVE-2009-2412

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