Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Expat, possibly resulting in Denial of Service. expat 2012-09-24 2012-09-24 280615 303727 407519 remote 2.1.0_beta3 2.1.0_beta3

Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Expat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted XML file in an application linked against Expat, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Expat users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/expat-2.1.0_beta3"

Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

CVE-2009-3560 CVE-2009-3720 CVE-2012-0876 CVE-2012-1147 CVE-2012-1148 keytoaster ackle