Synopsis: Moderate: expat security update Issue date: 2009-12-07 CVE Names: CVE-2009-3560 CVE-2009-3720 CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences CVE-2009-3560 expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences Two buffer over-read flaws were found in the way Expat handled malformed UTF-8 sequences when processing XML files. A specially-crafted XML file could cause applications using Expat to crash while parsing the file. (CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720) After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat library must be restarted for the update to take effect. SL 3.0.x SRPMS: expat-1.95.5-6.2.src.rpm i386: expat-1.95.5-6.2.i386.rpm expat-devel-1.95.5-6.2.i386.rpm x86_64: expat-1.95.5-6.2.i386.rpm expat-1.95.5-6.2.x86_64.rpm expat-devel-1.95.5-6.2.x86_64.rpm SL 4.x SRPMS: expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.src.rpm i386: expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm expat-devel-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm x86_64: expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm expat-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm expat-devel-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.i386.rpm expat-devel-1.95.7-4.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.src.rpm i386: expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm x86_64: expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson