Scientific Linux 6: Important Raptor Security Update for Remote Attack Risk

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:13:28 -0500
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Patrick Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: raptor on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: raptor security update
Issue Date: 2012-03-22
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-0037

Raptor provides parsers for Resource Description Framework (RDF) files.

An XML External Entity expansion flaw was found in the way Raptor processed
RDF files. If an application linked against Raptor were to open a
specially-crafted RDF file, it could possibly allow a remote attacker to
obtain a copy of an arbitrary local file that the user running the
application had access to. A bug in the way Raptor handled external
entities could cause that application to crash or, possibly, execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2012-0037)

All Raptor users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running applications
linked against Raptor must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL6:
 i386
 raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 raptor-debuginfo-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 raptor-devel-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
 raptor-debuginfo-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 raptor-debuginfo-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
 raptor-devel-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 raptor-devel-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team