Bug 1276693 (CVE-2015-5312) - CVE-2015-5312 libxml2: CPU exhaustion when processing specially crafted XML input
Summary: CVE-2015-5312 libxml2: CPU exhaustion when processing specially crafted XML i...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-5312
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1284794 1286495 1286496 1286497 1322871
Blocks: 1274223 1276694 1318206
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-30 14:00 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2020-12-15 08:50 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:45:00 UTC
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Proposed patch (445 bytes, patch)
2015-10-30 16:59 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2549 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libxml2 security update 2015-12-07 15:13:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2550 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libxml2 security update 2015-12-07 16:59:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1089 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0.3 security update 2016-05-17 20:12:21 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2015-10-30 14:00:52 UTC 
A vulnerability in libxml2 was found causing DoS by exhausting CPU when parsing specially crafted XML document.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756733
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-10-30 16:59:39 UTC 
Created attachment 1087984 [details]
Proposed patch

Patch proposed by Google Security Team.
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-01 09:50:37 UTC 
Upstream commit:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=69030714cde66d525a8884bda01b9e8f0abf8e1e
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 10:14:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:2549 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 12:00:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2550 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-17 16:13:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
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