-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:223-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : xerces-c Date : December 4, 2009 Affected: 2008.0 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in xerces-c: Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in simply nested DTD structures, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework (CVE-2009-1885). This update provides a solution to this vulnerability. Update: Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for Corporate products. _______________________________________________________________________ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1885 _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2008.0: 72383b750cd16274f52f35049b3a5e47 2008.0/i586/libxerces-c0-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm e9d2b47d1fb94e748f0e4a2cb9e95e46 2008.0/i586/libxerces-c0-devel-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm 7d5369e7a62d47aaab0363f24ca05775 2008.0/i586/xerces-c-doc-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm a98ebaaa3a3243fa337eb37de135e918 2008.0/SRPMS/xerces-c-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64: 9ee8f7ee2778a4c2ece40416df246be9 2008.0/x86_64/lib64xerces-c0-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm 38c61e60b68009bcd740e1f3a6d6c0ab 2008.0/x86_64/lib64xerces-c0-devel-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm 7e9bd01041e3548333c1750825a1a469 2008.0/x86_64/xerces-c-doc-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm a98ebaaa3a3243fa337eb37de135e918 2008.0/SRPMS/xerces-c-2.7.0-5.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security_(at)_mandriva.com _______________________________________________________________________ Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team <security*mandriva.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLGSLemqjQ0CJFipgRAsDaAJ0YGPXszEfUEXjEIVg2n6vSRHbkIQCfTzUZ uM8xO/P9YJLe3JfpyIsXEII= =/W5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----