Fedora 12: 2010-11574 Moderate: Java-XML-Processor DoS Resolution
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November 4, 2009
Fixes a denial of service when handling malformed XML (CVE-2009-3720)
Summary
4Suite-XML is a suite of Python modules for XML and RDF processing.
Its major components include the following:
* Ft.Xml.Domlette: A very fast, lightweight XPath-oriented DOM.
* Ft.Xml.XPath: An XPath 1.0 implementation for Domlette documents.
* Ft.Xml.Xslt: A robust XSLT 1.0 processor.
* Ft.Lib: Various support libraries that can be used independently.
Update Information:
Fixes a denial of service when handling malformed XML (CVE-2009-3720)
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Tue Nov 3 2009 Miloslav Trmač
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 python-4Suite-XML' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: python-4Suite-XML
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.0.2
Release: 8.fc11
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Summary: A collection of XML-related technologies for Python
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