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Posted on 25 August 2009
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:221
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : libneon0.27
Date : August 24, 2009
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in libneon0.27:
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect
recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption)
via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity
references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564 (CVE-2009-2473).
neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL is used, does not properly handle a
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