Bug 1281930 (CVE-2015-8317)

Summary: CVE-2015-8317 libxml2: Out-of-bounds heap read when parsing file with unfinished xml declaration
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: athmanem, carnil, c.david86, csutherl, dknox, erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, jclere, jdoyle, ktietz, lgao, mbabacek, mcermak, mturk, myarboro, ohudlick, rjones, sardella, slawomir, twalsh, veillard, weli
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to leak potentially sensitive information.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:45:20 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1281931, 1281932, 1281933, 1284794, 1286495, 1286496, 1286497, 1323034    
Bug Blocks: 1274223, 1281960, 1318206    

Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 20:50:12 UTC
An out-of-bounds heap read in xmlParseXMLDecl happens when a file containing unfinished xml declaration, e.g. <?xml versionencoding="ISO88598", is followed by 0xff byte.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751631

Upstream patch:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=709a952110e98621c9b78c4f26462a9d8333102e

Out-of-bounds heap read also occurs in xmlParseXMLDecl when file contains unterminated encoding value.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751603

Upstream patch:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9aa37588ee78a06ca1379a9d9356eab16686099c

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 20:51:52 UTC
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1281931]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 20:52:02 UTC
Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1281932]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1281933]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-11-19 11:48:57 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the GNOME project
Upstream: Hanno Boeck

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2015-11-23 13:20:38 UTC
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/354

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 10:14:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:2549 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 12:00:54 UTC
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

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-17 16:14:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html