Bug 1338711 (CVE-2016-1762)

Summary:	CVE-2016-1762 libxml2: Heap-based buffer-overread in xmlNextChar
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	athmanem, c.david86, csutherl, dknox, erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, gzaronik, jclere, ktietz, lgao, mbabacek, myarboro, ohudlick, rjones, sardella, security-response-team, slawomir, twalsh, veillard, weli
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:52:36 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1340367, 1340369, 1340370, 1340371, 1349794, 1349795, 1416773
Bug Blocks:	1332827, 1340339, 1395463

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-23 10:03:38 UTC

A vulnerability was found in the libxml2 library. A heap-based buffer overread could happen in xmlNextChar.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759671

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7a94612aa3b16779e2c74e1fa353b5d9786c602

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 10:34:24 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1292 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 09:44:28 UTC

Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349794]

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 09:44:37 UTC

Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349795]

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 22:20:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:2957 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html