Synopsis:	Moderate: neon security update
Issue date:	2009-09-21
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2473 CVE-2009-2474

CVE-2009-2473 neon, gnome-vfs2 embedded neon: billion laughs DoS attack
CVE-2009-2474 neon: Improper verification of x509v3 certificate with 
NULL (zero) byte in certain fields

It was discovered that neon is affected by the previously published 
"null prefix attack", caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in 
X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted 
certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker 
could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and 
potentially confuse an application using the neon library into accepting 
it by mistake. (CVE-2009-2474)

A denial of service flaw was found in the neon Extensible Markup 
Language (XML) parser. A remote attacker (malicious DAV server) could 
provide a specially-crafted XML document that would cause excessive 
memory and CPU consumption if an application using the neon XML parser 
was tricked into processing it. (CVE-2009-2473)

Applications using the neon HTTP and WebDAV client library, such as 
cadaver, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL 4.x

      SRPMS:
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.src.rpm
      i386:
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
neon-devel-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
neon-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm
neon-devel-0.24.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

      SRPMS:
neon-0.25.5-10.el5_4.1.src.rpm
      i386:
neon-0.25.5-10.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
neon-devel-0.25.5-10.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
neon-0.25.5-10.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
neon-devel-0.25.5-10.el5_4.1.i386.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson