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Fedora 11 : expat-2.0.1-6.fc11.1 (2009-10987)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42384

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security vulnerability: A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way Expat handles malformed UTF-8 sequences when processing XML files. A specially crafted XML file could cause applications using Expat to crash while parsing the file.
(CVE-2009-3720)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected expat package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697

http://www.nessus.org/u?f68b0d36

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42384

File Name: fedora_2009-10987.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:expat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3720

FEDORA: 2009-10987