USN-890-1 : expat vulnerabilities

NASLDB: USN-890-1 : expat vulnerabilities

General

ID: 44108
Name: USN-890-1 : expat vulnerabilities

Summary: Checks dpkg output for updated package(s)

Credits: –

Classification

Risk: –

CVSS: –
CVSS Base Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Temporal Vector: –

Port: 0
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Type: Local

Description

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)