Fedora 11 FEDORA-2009-11030 Critical: PyXML Buffer Over-Read
fedora
November 4, 2009
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.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon Nov 2 2009 Roman Rakus
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 11
Version: 0.8.4
Release: 16.fc11
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Summary: XML libraries for python
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