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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-890-4 Critical: PyXML Denial Of Service Issues

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USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the corresponding updates for PyXML.
==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-890-4           January 26, 2010
python-xml vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720
==========================================================
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
  python2.4-xml                   0.8.4-1ubuntu3.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that
use PyXML to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the
corresponding updates for PyXML.

Original advisory details:

 Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did
 not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against
 Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause
 a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720)
 
 It was discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed UTF-8
 sequences. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into
 opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via
 application crash. (CVE-2009-3560)


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:    26092 7b735067d5b8494bfa9479a38b1f971f
          Size/MD5:      663 064ad0d03d81132088df42f78850bfd7
          Size/MD5:   734751 04fc1685542b32c1948c2936dfb6ba0e

  Architecture independent packages:

          Size/MD5:    11568 253250bca793d626d3f651a116259b00
          Size/MD5:    25206 e73978eb774cf39690739f0908fb32dc
          Size/MD5:    24392 e4bab68a86bd7fb0dd85d39268716a64

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

          Size/MD5:   717460 763ab0e82cbd3767958753060145c5ab

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

          Size/MD5:   708074 e34c9a1bdaaef83eb885104360d9e94f

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

          Size/MD5:   716638 8ee8326bb735b20b18f0335c4485aadb

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

          Size/MD5:   706208 11751f3c1654c648dd145c88afc3002c



Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-890-4 Critical: PyXML Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Explore the essential Python XML security risks present in Ubuntu and follow the guidelines to effectively update your system.
USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat

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