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Ubuntu 890-1 Critical: Expat DoS Risk From Malformed XML

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2010
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Investigate the risks that expats face with Ubuntu distributions and uncover essential solutions to enhance application reliability.
Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat didnot properly process malformed XML

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