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Bug 652979 - udunits2 contains an embedded copy of expat, prone to CVE-2009-3720
Summary: udunits2 contains an embedded copy of expat, prone to CVE-2009-3720
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: udunits2
Version: 13
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-13 22:54 UTC by Silvio Cesare
Modified: 2010-12-01 17:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: udunits2-2.1.19-1.el5.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-11-24 22:35:09 UTC
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Description Silvio Cesare 2010-11-13 22:54:37 UTC
Description of problem:

udinits2 contains an old embedded version of the expat xml parsing library. Code
inspection shows this embedded copy is vulnerable to CVE-2009-3720 and possibly
other issues.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Version: 2.1.11
Release:  1.dc13

Additional info:

The CVE https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531697

Ideally, the best solution is to link in the system expat library and not use
the embedded copy. This would help prevent these types of security issues from
reoccuring.

I have marked this issue as a security issue due to the fact that a CVE was
assigned to expat. I have not investigated how this vulnerability would be
triggered by udunits2.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2010-11-16 07:36:39 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc13

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-11-16 07:38:03 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc14

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-11-16 07:38:08 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.el5.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udunits2-2.1.19-1.el5.1

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-11-16 17:31:13 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.el5.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update udunits2'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udunits2-2.1.19-1.el5.1

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-11-24 22:35:04 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-11-24 22:43:47 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-12-01 17:34:31 UTC
udunits2-2.1.19-1.el5.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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