Bug 1319829 (CVE-2016-3627) - CVE-2016-3627 libxml2: stack exhaustion while parsing xml files in recovery mode
Summary: CVE-2016-3627 libxml2: stack exhaustion while parsing xml files in recovery mode
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-3627
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: 1319830 1319831 1319832 1340367 1340369 1340370 1340371
Blocks: 1332827 1395463
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-21 15:47 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2020-12-15 08:51 UTC (History)
22 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:50:01 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1292 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libxml2 security update 2016-07-18 17:29:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2957 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP 2.4.23 Release 2016-12-16 03:11:19 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-03-21 15:47:44 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in a way libxml2 parses certain files. With the libxml2 in recovery mode, a maliciously crafted filed could cause libxml2 to crash.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/682

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/683
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-21 15:48:20 UTC 
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1319830]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-21 15:48:26 UTC 
Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1319831]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1319832]
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-05-25 06:02:21 UTC 
Upstream bug: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762100 (private)

Patch: 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=bdd66182ef53fe1f7209ab6535fda56366bd7ac9
Comment 6 Daniel Veillard 2016-06-06 14:32:54 UTC 
*** Bug 1332820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 10:32:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1292 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 22:16:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:2957 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
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