Bug 1281862 – CVE-2015-7497 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey

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Bug 1281862 - (CVE-2015-7497) CVE-2015-7497 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey

Summary:	CVE-2015-7497 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2015-7497

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1284794 1286495 1286496 1286497 1322879
Blocks:	1274223 1281960 1318206
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Reported:	2015-11-13 11:05 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-03-08 02:37 EST (History)
CC List:	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 crash.
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Proposed patch (442 bytes, patch) 2015-11-13 11:05 EST, Adam Mariš	no flags	Details \| Diff
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:2549	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: libxml2 security update	2015-12-07 10:13:44 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:2550	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: libxml2 security update	2015-12-07 11:59:33 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1089	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0.3 security update	2016-05-17 16:12:21 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 11:05:07 EST

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in xmlDictComputeFastQKey in dict.c.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756528

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 11:05 EST

Created attachment 1093719 [details]
Proposed patch

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-11-16 09:04:13 EST

Acknowledgments:

Name: the GNOME project
Upstream: Kostya Serebryany

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-01 04:53:32 EST

Upstream commit:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=6360a31a84efe69d155ed96306b9a931a40beab9

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 05:14:30 EST

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 07:00:33 EST

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 12:14:10 EDT

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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