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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Raptor Code Execution Risk: USN-1901-1 Moderate Threat

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Calendar Grey July 8, 2013
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Recent flaw in Fedora could jeopardize information or enable arbitrary command execution. Prompt patching advised for safety.
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:

- raptor2: Raptor 2 RDF syntax 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution application update information exposure ubuntu

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libraptor2-0                    2.0.6-1ubuntu0.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1901-1

CVE-2012-0037

July 08, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution application update information exposure ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/raptor2/2.0.6-1ubuntu0.1

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