Bug 1612388

Summary:	xml-security-c: null pointer dereference in xml-security-c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	antti.andreimann, kloczko.tomasz, sfowler
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	xml-security-c 2.0.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:35:10 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1612390, 1612389
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-08-03 23:24:08 UTC

A flaw was found in xml-security-c. A null pointer dereference which results in a remote Denial of Service attack (shibd crash) in the Shibboleth SP stack. 


References:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905332
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SANTUARIO/issues/SANTUARIO-491

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-08-03 23:24:50 UTC

Created xml-security-c tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1612390]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1612389]

Comment 2 Sam Fowler 2018-08-10 06:16:44 UTC

*** Bug 1614632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:35:10 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.