Bug 430645 (CVE-2004-0989)

Summary:	CVE-2004-0989 libxml2 various overflows
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	vdanen, veillard
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2004-0989
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Bug Depends On:	137264, 137266, 139090, 139092, 430728
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Description Mark J. Cox 2008-01-29 09:53:00 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2004-0989 to the following vulnerability:

Multiple buffer overflows in libXML 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 (libxml2), and possibly other versions, may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long FTP URL that is not properly handled by the xmlNanoFTPScanURL function, (2) a long proxy URL containing FTP data that is not properly handled by the xmlNanoFTPScanProxy function, and other overflows related to manipulation of DNS length values, including (3) xmlNanoFTPConnect, (4) xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost, and (5) xmlNanoHTTPConnectHost.

References:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109880813013482&w=2
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Jan/msg00001.html
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000890
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-582
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-05.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-615.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-650.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_01_sr.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110972110516151&w=2
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-029.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11526
http://www.osvdb.org/11179
http://www.osvdb.org/11180
http://www.osvdb.org/11324
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1173
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011941
http://secunia.com/advisories/13000
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17870
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17875
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17872
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17876

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-08-12 14:03:36 UTC

libxml-1.8.17-24.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libxml-1.8.17-24.fc11

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-08-12 14:05:28 UTC

libxml-1.8.17-24.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libxml-1.8.17-24.fc10

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-08-15 08:17:59 UTC

libxml-1.8.17-24.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-08-15 08:20:34 UTC

libxml-1.8.17-24.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2010-12-22 02:05:51 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (RHSA-2004:615 (libxml2) and RHSA-2004:650 (libxml))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2004:615 (libxml2) and RHSA-2004:650 (libxml))