[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#551936: expat: CVE-2009-2625

Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert at wgdd.de
Sun Oct 25 22:05:30 UTC 2009


Hi security team,

I recently received this bug report:

Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 18:38 -0400 schrieb Michael Gilbert:
> package: expat
> version: 1.95.8-3
> severity: serious
> tags: security
> 
> hello, a security issue has been disclosed for expat.  see [0],[1].
> this affects all supported debian releases, so please coordinate with
> the security team to prepare DSAs.
>
> mike
> 
> [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2625
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280615

The dpatch patch is already available at
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-xml-sgml/packages/expat/trunk/debian/patches/551936_CVE_2009_2625.dpatch

Shall I prepare the packages (I'm registered as DM for expat > 2.0.1,
but not for expat in oldstable) or do you want to do this?

Regards, Daniel
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