Bug 1281943 (CVE-2015-7500)

Summary: CVE-2015-7500 libxml2: Heap buffer overflow in xmlParseMisc
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, csutherl, dknox, jclere, jdoyle, jrusnack, lgao, mbabacek, mcermak, mturk, myarboro, ohudlick, sardella, security-response-team, slawomir, twalsh, veillard, weli
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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 crash.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:45:25 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1284794, 1286495, 1286496, 1286497, 1323036    
Bug Blocks: 1274223, 1281961, 1318206    
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 21:18:41 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow read in xmlParseMisc was found.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756525
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 21:19:27 UTC 
Created attachment 1093866 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-11-16 14:04:41 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the GNOME project
Upstream: Kostya Serebryany
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-01 09:58:20 UTC 
Upstream commit:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=f1063fdbe7fa66332bbb76874101c2a7b51b519f
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 10:15:03 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 12:01:10 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 16:14:55 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



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