Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2009-3560
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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720. (CVE-2009-3560) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the…Read More

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