Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1490-1 High: T-Rex Data Leak Vulnerability Risk

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June 18, 2012

Applications using Raptor could be made to expose sensitive information or run programs as your login if they opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Applications using Raptor could be made to expose sensitive information or

run programs as your login if they opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- raptor: Raptor RDF parser and serializer library

Details:

Timothy D. Morgan discovered that Raptor would unconditionally load XML

external entities. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted

document in an application linked against Raptor, an attacker could

possibly obtain access to arbitrary files on the user's system or

potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking

the program.

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity information exposure ubuntu raptor

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libraptor1                      1.4.21-7ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  libraptor1                      1.4.21-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  libraptor1                      1.4.21-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libraptor1                      1.4.21-1ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications which
use Raptor, such as OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, to make all the
necessary changes.