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Bug 1338691 - (CVE-2016-1835) CVE-2016-1835 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs
CVE-2016-1835 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20160523,repor...
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Depends On: 1340367 1340369 1340370 1340371 1349794 1349795
Blocks: 1332827 1340339 1395463
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Reported: 2016-05-23 05:38 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-08-16 00:59 EDT (History)
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1292 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libxml2 security update 2016-07-18 13:29:39 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2957 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP 2.4.23 Release 2016-12-15 22:11:19 EST

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-23 05:38:22 EDT
A vulnerability was found in the libxml2 library. A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash due to a Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759020

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=38eae571111db3b43ffdeb05487c9f60551906fb
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 06:33:04 EDT
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 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 05:40:11 EDT
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349794]
Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 05:40:24 EDT
Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349795]
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 17:18:48 EST
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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