Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-10949 (PyXML)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: PyXML-0.8.4-12.fc10 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-10949
2009-11-04 10:55:26
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Name        : PyXML
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 0.8.4
Release     : 12.fc10
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@redhat.com> - 0.8.4-12
- Use system expat library
* Fri Oct 30 2009 Roman Rakus <rrakus@redhat.com> - 0.8.4-11
- 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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