Summary
The remote host is missing an update to expat
announced via advisory DSA 1921-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201921-1
Insight
Peter Valchev discovered an error in expat, an XML parsing C library, when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library.
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.95.8-3.4+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-4+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2009-2625 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Related Vulnerabilities