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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-6014 (apr-util)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-6014 2009-06-15 21:58:42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : apr-util Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.2.12 Release : 7.fc9 URL : http://apr.apache.org/ Summary : Apache Portable Runtime Utility library Description : The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines. This library contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Backport security fixes from upstream version 1.3.7: - CVE-2009-0023 Fix underflow in apr_strmatch_precompile. - CVE-2009-1955 Fix a denial of service attack against the apr_xml_* interface using the "billion laughs" entity expansion technique. - CVE-2009-1956 Fix off by one overflow in apr_brigade_vprintf. Note: CVE-2009-1956 is only an issue on big-endian architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jun 8 2009 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.2.12-7 - include missing bit of the apr_strmatch.c patch * Mon Jun 8 2009 Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> - 1.2.12-6 - CVE-2009-0023 - "billion laughs" fix of apr_xml_* interface - off by one in apr_brigade_vprintf * Wed Jun 11 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 1.2.12-5.1 - minor rebuild on sparc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #504555 - CVE-2009-1955 apr-util billion laughs attack https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504555 [ 2 ] Bug #504390 - CVE-2009-1956 apr-util single NULL byte buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504390 [ 3 ] Bug #503928 - CVE-2009-0023 apr-util heap buffer underwrite https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503928 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update apr-util' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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