| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to expat
announced via advisory USN-890-1.
Details follow:
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)
Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
libexpat1 1.95.8-3ubuntu0.1
libexpat1-udeb 1.95.8-3ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
lib64expat1 2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
libexpat1 2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
libexpat1-udeb 2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 8.10:
lib64expat1 2.0.1-4ubuntu0.8.10.1
libexpat1 2.0.1-4ubuntu0.8.10.1
libexpat1-udeb 2.0.1-4ubuntu0.8.10.1
Ubuntu 9.04:
lib64expat1 2.0.1-4ubuntu0.9.04.1
libexpat1 2.0.1-4ubuntu0.9.04.1
libexpat1-udeb 2.0.1-4ubuntu0.9.04.1
Ubuntu 9.10:
lib64expat1 2.0.1-4ubuntu1.1
libexpat1 2.0.1-4ubuntu1.1
libexpat1-udeb 2.0.1-4ubuntu1.1
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications linked
against Expat to effect the necessary changes.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-890-1
Risk factor : Medium
CVSS Score:
5.0
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