Bug 116572 – libxml2 ftp and http fetch had a bound checking error

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Bug 116572 - libxml2 ftp and http fetch had a bound checking error

Summary:	libxml2 ftp and http fetch had a bound checking error

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	libxml2 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Daniel Veillard
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	CVE-2004-0110
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Reported:	2004-02-23 07:31 EST by Daniel Veillard
Modified:	2008-01-29 04:54 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-03-08 10:34:08 EST
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This patch fix the problem on 2.6.5 (6.23 KB, patch) 2004-02-23 07:33 EST, Daniel Veillard	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Daniel Veillard 2004-02-23 07:31:45 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131

Description of problem:
When fetching a remote resource via ftp and http
libxml2 use special parsing routines which had a buffer
overflow problem if passed a URL more than 4Kb.
This is a potential security issue covering all libxml2
releases up to 2.6.5 and fixed in 2.6.6

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1./usr/bin/xmllint http://`perl -e 'print "A" x 5000'`
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Actual Results:  segfaults

Expected Results:  should not segfault

Additional info:

This covers RHEL 2.1, RHL9, RHEL 3 and FC1 <grin/>

Comment 1 Daniel Veillard 2004-02-23 07:33:30 EST

Created attachment 97942 [details]
This patch fix the problem on 2.6.5

Comment 2 Daniel Veillard 2004-02-23 07:35:51 EST

Best processing seems to:
  - apply the patch for RHEL 2.1 and 3
  - push 2.6.6 or 2.6.7 as a fedora core 1 update
  - for RHL9 applying the patch is probably the simplest.

Daniel

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2004-02-24 04:38:10 EST

RHSA-2004:090 (RHEL) and RHSA-2004:091 (RHL9) in progress.

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2004-03-08 10:34:08 EST

was released 2004-02-26

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