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Ubuntu 15.04: USN-2726-1 Critical Expat Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2015
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Expat security flaws may lead to system failures or execution of unauthorized commands on Ubuntu platforms when processing specially crafted files.
Expat could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Expat could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a

specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- expat: XML parsing C library

Details:

It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML data. If a

user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a

crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly

execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update code execution ubuntu expat

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  lib64expat1                     2.1.0-6ubuntu1.1
  libexpat1                       2.1.0-6ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  lib64expat1                     2.1.0-4ubuntu1.1
  libexpat1                       2.1.0-4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  lib64expat1                     2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.2
  libexpat1                       2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.2

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications linked
against Expat to effect the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2726-1

CVE-2015-1283

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August 31, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update code execution ubuntu expat

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/2.1.0-6ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/2.1.0-4ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expat/2.0.1-7.2ubuntu1.2

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