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ubuntu_osv/UBUNTU-CVE-2009-3720

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Advisory Summary

ubuntu_osv/UBUNTU-CVE-2009-3720

The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.
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