Bug 1350481 (CVE-2016-5827)

Summary: CVE-2016-5827 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icaltime_from_string
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1350482, 1350483, 1350484    
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 14:43:15 UTC
Heap buffer over-read vulnerability was found in libical 0.47 in icaltime_from_string function caused by passing malformed input to icalparser_parse_string function.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/604

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 14:44:41 UTC
Created thunderbird tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1350483]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 14:44:47 UTC
Created libical tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1350482]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1350484]

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2016-06-28 05:57:39 UTC
(In reply to Adam Mariš from comment #0)
> Upstream bugs (not public yet):
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> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281041
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

I cannot open any of those bug reports right now. Is there any patch for libical, or anything useful?