Bug 1211278 (CVE-2015-1819)
| Summary: | CVE-2015-1819 libxml2: denial of service processing a crafted XML document | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | AL00339146, carnil, fweimer, mcermak, ohudlick, security-response-team, veillard |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the libxml2 library parsed certain XML files. An attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when parsed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to use an excessive amount of memory.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:40:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1214163, 1286496, 1286497 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1193283, 1211280 | ||
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Description
Vasyl Kaigorodov
2015-04-13 13:46:10 UTC
Patch updstream https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=213f1fe0d76d30eaed6e5853057defc43e6df2c9 Daniel (In reply to Daniel Veillard from comment #3) > Patch updstream > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/ > ?id=213f1fe0d76d30eaed6e5853057defc43e6df2c9 > > Daniel Could you please let me know the version in which the bug has been fixed and provide the URL for downloading the same ? Acknowledgements: Name: Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security) Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw in libxml2. I don't think the upstream fix is quite right, as explained here: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748278> Could you please help with the patch to fix this vulnerability. (In reply to Aakash from comment #10) > Could you please help with the patch to fix this vulnerability. Aakash, please open a customer support case here: <https://access.redhat.com/support/>. This bug here is a public resource and thus not suitable for responding to support queries, I'm afraid. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2015:1419 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1419.html libxml2-2.9.3-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. libxml2-2.9.3-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. I am getting the following error when i am trying to start apache server with mod security 2.8.0 and updated libxml version 2.9.3: httpd: Syntax error on line 55 of /opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /opt/apache/modules/mod_security2.so into server: /opt/apache/modules/mod_security2.so: symbol xmlOutputBufferGetSize, version LIBXML2_2.9.0 not defined in file libxml2.so.2 with link time reference Could you please help. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:2550 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html |