Bug 1348845 (CVE-2016-4463)
| Summary: | CVE-2016-4463 xerces-c: Stack overflow when parsing deeply nested DTD | ||
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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: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abhgupta, ableisch, anemec, avagarwa, bhu, dmcphers, esammons, iboverma, jialiu, jokerman, jross, lmeyer, matt, mcressma, mmccomas, mthacker, rrajasek, sardella, security-response-team, tiwillia, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened, Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: |
A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2018-11-07 07:54:03 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: | 1351467, 1351468, 1351469, 1534481, 1534482, 1631343, 1631344 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1348850 | ||
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Description
Adam Mariš
2016-06-22 08:21:05 UTC
Created mingw-xerces-c tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1351468] Created xerces-c tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1351467] Created xerces-c27 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1351469] Public via: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/625 xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. mingw-xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. mingw-xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. mingw-xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3335 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3335 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2018:3506 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3506 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2018:3514 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3514 |