CVE-2009-3720 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2009-3720
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Description: 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA37324 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/26/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/28/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/22/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/22/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/06/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/27/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/26/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/26/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/21/2 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/expat-bugs/2009-January/002781.html MISC http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1990430&group_id=10127&atid=110127 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:217 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:215 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:212 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:211 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:218 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:220 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:219 CONFIRM http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=74429 http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmltok_impl.c?view=log http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmltok_impl.c?r1=1.13&r2=1.15&view=patch

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