Ubuntu Security Notice USN-890-5
18th February, 2010
xmlrpc-c vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 9.10
Software description
- xmlrpc-c
Details
USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the
corresponding updates for XML-RPC for C and C++.
Original advisory details:
Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did
not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against
Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause
a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720)
It was discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed UTF-8
sequences. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into
opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via
application crash. (CVE-2009-3560)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 9.10:
- libxmlrpc-core-c3 1.06.27-1ubuntu6.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications linked
against XML-RPC for C and C++ to effect the necessary changes.