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

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• libxmlrpc-core-c3 - 1.06.27-1ubuntu6.1

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

References

• CVE-2009-3560
• CVE-2009-3720

Related notices

• USN-890-2: python2.5-minimal, python2.5
• USN-890-3: python2.4, python2.4-minimal
• USN-890-1: lib64expat1, expat, libexpat1, libexpat1-udeb
• USN-890-4: python2.4-xml, python-xml
• USN-890-6: cmake