Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-5058 (expat)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: expat-2.1.0-1.fc16 | |
| Date: | Tue, 01 May 2012 00:51:58 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20120501005158.EAFE720A96@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-5058 2012-03-31 02:15:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : expat Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.1.0 Release : 1.fc16 URL : http://www.libexpat.org/ Summary : An XML parser library Description : This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update includes expat 2.1.0, which fixes includes a fix for a security issue. A specially-crafted set of keys could trigger hash function collisions, which degrade dictionary performance by changing hash table operations complexity from an expected/average O(1) to the worst case O(n). Reporters were able to find colliding strings efficiently using meet in the middle attack. (CVE-2012-0876) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Mar 26 2012 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> - 2.1.0-1 - update to 2.1.0 (#806602) * Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.1-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #786617 - CVE-2012-0876 expat: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786617 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update expat' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...