USN-890-4: PyXML vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-890-4 January 26, 2010
python-xml vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720
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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)
