[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: expat-2.0.1-8.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-12716
2009-12-04 22:42:28
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Name        : expat
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 2.0.1
Release     : 8.fc11
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.

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Update Information:

A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way Expat handles malformed UTF-8
sequences when processing XML files. A specially-crafted XML file could cause
applications using Expat to crash while parsing the file. (CVE-2009-3560)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec  1 2009 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 2.0.1-8
- add security fix for CVE-2009-3560 (#533174)
- run the test suite
* Fri Oct 30 2009 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 2.0.1-6.1
- add security fix for CVE-2009-3720
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #533174 - CVE-2009-3560 expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533174
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