USN-890-6: CMake vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• cmake -

Details

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the
corresponding updates for CMake.

Original advisory details:

Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did
not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against
Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause
a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2009-2625, CVE-2009-3720)

It was discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed UTF-8
sequences. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into
opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via
application crash. (CVE-2009-3560)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.04

• cmake - 2.6.2-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• cmake - 2.6.0-4ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• cmake - 2.4.7-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-3560
• CVE-2009-3720

Related notices

• USN-890-2: python2.5-minimal, python2.5
• USN-890-1: libexpat1-udeb, libexpat1, lib64expat1, expat
• USN-890-4: python2.4-xml, python-xml
• USN-890-3: python2.4-minimal, python2.4
• USN-890-5: xmlrpc-c, libxmlrpc-core-c3