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TITLE:
Apache APR-util Library Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35284

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35284/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in APR-util, which can be
exploited by malicious users and malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

1) A vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of XML
files and can be exploited to exhaust all available memory via a
specially crafted XML file containing a predefined entity inside an
entity definition.

2) A vulnerability is caused due to an error within the
"apr_strmatch_precompile()" function in strmatch/apr_strmatch.c,
which can be exploited to crash an application using the library.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) kcope
2) Matthew Palmer

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3

1) http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8842

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