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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         : https://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  - 0.8.4-16
- Use system expat library
* Fri Oct 30 2009 Roman Rakus  - 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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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update PyXML' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

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Fedora 11 Update: PyXML-0.8.4-16.fc11

November 4, 2009
Switched to using system expat library

Summary

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.

Update Information:

Switched to using system expat library. Updated expat packages are needed to fully resolve this flaw.

Change Log

* Mon Nov 2 2009 Roman Rakus - 0.8.4-16 - Use system expat library * Fri Oct 30 2009 Roman Rakus - 0.8.4-15 - Fix buffer over read

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

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update PyXML' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : PyXML
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 0.8.4
Release : 16.fc11
URL : https://pyxml.sourceforge.net/
Summary : XML libraries for python

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