USN-890-4: PyXML vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• python-xml -

Details

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.06

• 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.

References

• CVE-2009-3560
• CVE-2009-3720

Related notices

• USN-890-2: python2.5, python2.5-minimal
• USN-890-6: cmake
• USN-890-1: expat, libexpat1-udeb, lib64expat1, libexpat1
• USN-890-3: python2.4, python2.4-minimal
• USN-890-5: xmlrpc-c, libxmlrpc-core-c3