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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-10951 Urgent Falcon Security Patch

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian 11 Security Alert for OpenSSL resolves significant vulnerabilities in the cryptographic library enhancements.
Switched to using system expat library

Summary

An XML package for Python. The distribution contains a

validating XML parser, an implementation of the SAX and DOM

programming interfaces and an interface to the Expat parser.

Update Information:

Switched to using system expat library. Updated expat packages are needed to fully resolve this flaw.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical update buffer over-read XML parser expat library

Change Log

* Mon Nov 2 2009 Roman Rakus - 0.8.4-12 - Use system expat library * Fri Oct 30 2009 Roman Rakus - 0.8.4-11 - Fix buffer over read

References


[ 1 ] Bug #531697 - CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697

Update Instructions

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

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Name: PyXML
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.8.4
Release: 12.fc10
URL:
Summary: XML libraries for python.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical update buffer over-read XML parser expat library

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