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Fedora 10 : expat-2.0.1-8.fc10 (2009-12690)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43012

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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-2009-3560)

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=533174

http://www.nessus.org/u?f6f96b2a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43012

File Name: fedora_2009-12690.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2009

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:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:expat

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-12690