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Fedora 11 Security Update: expat-2.0.1-6.fc11.1

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Article Source Fedora 11 Security Updates
November 4, 2009, 2:56 am

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531697 - CVE-2009-3720 expat: buffer over-read and crash on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences

This update fixes a security vulnerability: 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-2009-3720)...

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