Bug 250929 – dev-lisp/cl-albert contains an internal copy of expat

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-12-14 13:43:01 UTC]

I cannot say which version because some files were removed, would be nice if upstream made it possible to use a system library though.

[Comment 1 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2009-08-24 09:06:25 UTC]

I wouldn't be sad if someone killed cl-albert.

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-01-09 17:53:46 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I wouldn't be sad if someone killed cl-albert.
> 

Someone needs to fix it since it (may?) contain a security-vuln copy of expat. The time is near...

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2010-01-09 19:00:27 UTC]

Looks like everybody agrees on this one. Reassigning to treecleaners.

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-06 17:02:59 UTC]

CVE-2009-2625 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2625):
  Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in
  JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20,
  and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input,
  as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

^ This is really a expat vuln, wrt bug 280615

CVE-2009-3560 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3560):
  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.

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-04-06 17:39:10 UTC]

Removed from tree.