1.30. expat

1.30.1. RHBA-2010:0672: bug fix update

Updated expat packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

These updated expat packages fix the following bug:

* due to a regression introduced by the fix for CVE-2009-3560 the parser could fail when parsing a document with an external DTD (Document Type Definition). This issue is now resolved and such documents will parse correctly. ( BZ#618744)

All expat users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

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