Scientific Linux: CVE-2009-3560 Moderate: Expat Buffer Over-read Crash

Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:06:31 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: expat on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: expat security update
Issue date:	2009-12-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-3560 CVE-2009-3720

CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed
UTF-8 sequences
CVE-2009-3560 expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML
with malformed UTF-8 sequences

Two buffer over-read flaws were found in the way Expat handled malformed
UTF-8 sequences when processing XML files. A specially-crafted XML file
could cause applications using Expat to crash while parsing the file.
(CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720)

After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat
library must be restarted for the update to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
expat-1.95.5-6.2.src.rpm
 i386:
expat-1.95.5-6.2.i386.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.5-6.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
expat-1.95.5-6.2.i386.rpm
expat-1.95.5-6.2.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.5-6.2.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.src.rpm
 i386:
expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.src.rpm
 i386:
expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson