Bug 1281950 (CVE-2015-8242)
| Summary: | CVE-2015-8242 libxml2: Buffer overread with HTML parser in push mode in xmlSAX2TextNode | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Adam Mariš <amaris> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | 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 |
| 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 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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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:45:27 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: | 1281951, 1281952, 1281953, 1284794, 1286495, 1286496, 1286497, 1323037 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1274223, 1281961, 1318206 | ||
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Description
Adam Mariš
2015-11-13 21:44:44 UTC
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1281951] Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1281952] Affects: epel-7 [bug 1281953] Acknowledgments: Name: the GNOME project Upstream: Hugh Davenport CVE assignment: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/18/23 Upstream patch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8fb4a770075628d6441fb17a1e435100e2f3b1a2 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 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 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Via RHSA-2016:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 500 days |