[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: python-4Suite-XML-1.0.2-8.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-10956
2009-11-04 10:55:37
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Name        : python-4Suite-XML
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.0.2
Release     : 8.fc10
URL         : http://www.4suite.org/
Summary     : A collection of XML-related technologies for Python
Description :
4Suite-XML is a suite of Python modules for XML and RDF processing.
Its major components include the following:

 * Ft.Xml.Domlette: A very fast, lightweight XPath-oriented DOM.
 * Ft.Xml.XPath: An XPath 1.0 implementation for Domlette documents.
 * Ft.Xml.Xslt: A robust XSLT 1.0 processor.
 * Ft.Lib: Various support libraries that can be used independently.

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Update Information:

Fixes a denial of service when handling malformed XML (CVE-2009-3720)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Nov  3 2009 Miloslav Trmač <mitr at redhat.com> - 1.0.2-8
- Fix an expat DoS
  Related: #531697
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.2-7
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.2-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Nov 29 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm at gmail.com> - 1.0.2-5
- Rebuild for Python 2.6
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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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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update python-4Suite-XML' at the command line.
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