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expat2 -- Parser crash with specially formatted UTF-8 sequences

Affected packages
	expat2	<	2.0.1_1
	linux-f10-expat	<	2.0.1_1

Details

VuXML ID	5f030587-e39a-11de-881e-001aa0166822
Discovery	2009-01-17
Entry	2009-12-08

CVE reports:

The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read.

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References

CVE Name

CVE-2009-3720