Bug 1338696 – CVE-2016-1837 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in htmlPArsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral

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Bug 1338696 - (CVE-2016-1837) CVE-2016-1837 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in htmlPArsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral

Summary:	CVE-2016-1837 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in htmlPArsePubidLiteral and htmlP...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2016-1837

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

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Depends On:	1340367 1340369 1340370 1340371 1349794 1349795
Blocks:	1332827 1340339 1395463
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Reported:	2016-05-23 05:40 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-08-16 00:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	19 users (show)

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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 05:40:55 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 htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760263

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=11ed4a7a90d5ce156a18980a4ad4e53e77384852

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 06:33:13 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 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 05:40:39 EDT

Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349794]

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 05:40:49 EDT

Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349795]

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 17:18:59 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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