paul Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 A vulnerability has been found and corrected in expat: The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720 (CVE-2009-3560). Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers This update provides a solution to these vulnerabilities. Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers. Update: SUSE discovered a regression with the previous patch fixing CVE-2009-3560. This regression is now being addressed with this update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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