Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:20:40 -0600
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA Moderate: PyXML on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

Synopsis:	Moderate: PyXML security update
Issue date:	2010-01-04
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-3720

A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way PyXML's Expat parser 
handled malformed UTF-8 sequences when processing XML files. A 
specially-crafted XML file could cause Python applications using PyXML's 
Expat parser to crash while parsing the file. (CVE-2009-3720)

This update makes PyXML use the system Expat library rather than its own
internal copy; therefore, users must install the December 2009 expat 
security update, together with this PyXML update to resolve the 
CVE-2009-3720 issue.

After installing this update along with the December 2009 expat security 
  update, applications using the PyXML library must be restarted for the 
update to take effect.

SL 4.x

      SRPMS:
PyXML-0.8.3-6.el4_8.2.src.rpm
      i386:
PyXML-0.8.3-6.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
PyXML-0.8.3-6.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

      SRPMS:
PyXML-0.8.4-4.el5_4.2.src.rpm
      i386:
PyXML-0.8.4-4.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
PyXML-0.8.4-4.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson