Bug 179836

Summary: old expat code included
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Patrice Dumas <pertusus>
Component: w3c-libwwwAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Description Patrice Dumas 2006-02-03 10:01:41 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
w3c-libwww uses an old version of the expat library, with code included in modules/expat. I don't know if there are security issues that are not fixed in that library, but if it is the case, system expat should be used.

I haven't investigated, but I have seen that on the web:
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2002-12/0143.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
w3c-libwww-5.4.0-15

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. recompile w3c-libwww
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Actual Results:  uses outdated libxmltok and libxmlparse (and install them...)

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Comment 1 Christian Iseli 2007-01-22 11:48:33 UTC
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 2 Patrice Dumas 2007-01-22 13:56:00 UTC
This doesn't apply to current fedora product since w3c-libwww
is now in extras and this issue has been catched during the 
review.