Fedora 11 Update: apr-util-1.3.7-1.fc11
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:
Update to upstream version 1.3.7, see: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/ /apr-util/tags/1.3.7/CHANGES Security fixes: - CVE-2009-0023 Fix underflow in apr_strmatch_precompile. - CVE-2009-1955 Fix a denial of service attack against the apr_xml_* interface using the "billion laughs" entity expansion technique. - CVE-2009-1956 Fix off by one overflow in apr_brigade_vprintf. Note: CVE-2009-1956 is only an issue on big-endian architectures.
Change Log
* Mon Jun 8 2009 Bojan Smojver
References
[ 1 ] Bug #504555 - CVE-2009-1955 apr-util billion laughs attack https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504555 [ 2 ] Bug #504390 - CVE-2009-1956 apr-util single NULL byte buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504390 [ 3 ] Bug #503928 - CVE-2009-0023 apr-util heap buffer underwrite https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503928
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 .