Bug 1452553 (CVE-2017-9050)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9050 libxml2: Heap-based buffer over-read in function xmlDictAddString
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	athmanem, c.david86, csutherl, dmoppert, erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, gzaronik, jclere, ktietz, lgao, mbabacek, mturk, myarboro, ohudlick, pjindal, plodge, rhel-process-autobot, rh-spice-bugs, rjones, sardella, slawomir, szappis, twalsh, vchlup, veillard, watson-tool-maintainers, weli
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	libxml2 2.9.4	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1452550, 1452551, 1548943, 1695415
Bug Blocks:	1452558

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-19 07:58:30 UTC

libxml2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2 to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/258

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-19 08:04:50 UTC

Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1452550]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-19 08:05:00 UTC

Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1452551]

Comment 7 Doran Moppert 2019-04-03 02:55:07 UTC

Upstream patch:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/45752d2c3