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TITLE:
neon Denial of Service and Spoofing Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36371

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36371/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in neon, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks or cause a
DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error when expanding XML entities can be exploited to consume
large amounts of memory and cause a crash or hang via a specially
crafted XML document.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the expat
library is used.

2) An error when processing SSL certificates containing NULL
characters embedded in certain certificate fields and can be
exploited to spoof certificates for legitimate domains.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA36093

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.28.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.28.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001046.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36093:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36093/

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