Summary
The remote host is missing an update to kompozer
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:219.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:219
Insight
A vulnerability was found in xmltok_impl.c (expat) that with specially crafted XML could be exploited and lead to a denial of service attack. Related to CVE-2009-2625.
Additionally on 2009.0 a patch was added to prevent kompozer from crashing (#44830), on 2009.1 a format string patch was added to make it build with the -Wformat -Werror=format-security gcc optimization switch added in 2009.1
This update fixes these issues.
Affected: 2009.0, 2009.1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2625 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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