USN-890-5: XML-RPC for C and C++ vulnerabilities

Publication date

18 February 2010

Overview

XML-RPC for C and C++ vulnerabilities

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Details

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the
corresponding updates for XML-RPC for C and C++.

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)

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the
corresponding updates for XML-RPC for C and C++.

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

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications linked against XML-RPC for C and C++ to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
9.10 karmic libxmlrpc-core-c3 –  1.06.27-1ubuntu6.1

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