[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: PyXML-0.8.4-16.fc11
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11030
2009-11-04 10:57:28.710919
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Name : PyXML
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 0.8.4
Release : 16.fc11
URL : http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/
Summary : XML libraries for python
Description :
An XML package for Python. The distribution contains a
validating XML parser, an implementation of the SAX and DOM
programming interfaces and an interface to the Expat parser.
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Update Information:
Switched to using system expat library. Updated expat packages are needed to
fully resolve this flaw.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Nov 2 2009 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 0.8.4-16
- Use system expat library
* Fri Oct 30 2009 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 0.8.4-15
- Fix buffer over read
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #531697 - CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697
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