SB2010011701 - Out-of-bounds read in expat (Alpine package)

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SB2010011701 - Out-of-bounds read in expat (Alpine package)

Published: January 17, 2010

Security Bulletin ID SB2010011701
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3560)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when processing 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 within the The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, pass it to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the affected application.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References