Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xerces-c
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:223.
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-2009:223
Insight
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in xerces-c:
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in simply nested DTD structures, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework (CVE-2009-1885).
This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Enterprise Server 5.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1885 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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