[ MDVSA-2009:316-1 ] expat

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Package : expat
Date : January 8, 2010
Affected: 2008.0, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0, Corporate 4.0,
Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in expat:

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1,
as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an
XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer
over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c,
a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720
(CVE-2009-3560).

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers

This update provides a solution to these vulnerabilities.

Update:

This vulnerability was discovered in the bundled expat code in
various softwares besides expat itself. As a precaution the affected
softwares has preemptively been patched to prevent presumptive future
exploitations of this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-3560
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