Bug 1758449 (CVE-2019-12412)

Summary:	CVE-2019-12412 libapreq: null pointer dereference in create_multipart_context()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bojan
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Bug Depends On:	1758453, 1758454
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-04 07:56:03 UTC

A vulnerability was found in libapreq2 through 2.13 where  multipart parser can be made dereference the null pointer
by issuing a simple CURL command.

Reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939937

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-04 08:00:31 UTC

Created libapreq2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1758454]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1758453]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-10-04 12:51:06 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.