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Bug 1338703 - (CVE-2016-1839) CVE-2016-1839 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString
CVE-2016-1839 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20160523,repor...
: Security
: CVE-2016-2073 CVE-2015-8806 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1340367 1340369 1340370 1340371 1349794 1349795
Blocks: 1301932 1304644 1332827 1340339 1395463
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Reported: 2016-05-23 05:53 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 05:53:13 EDT
A vulnerability was found in the libxml2 library. A heap-based buffer overread could happen in xmlDictAddString.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a820dbeac29d330bae4be05d9ecd939ad6b4aa33
Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2016-05-25 06:18:50 EDT
*** Bug 1304636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Cedric Buissart 2016-05-25 06:49:58 EDT
*** Bug 1301928 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 06:33:46 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 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 05:42:52 EDT
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349794]
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 05:43:02 EDT
Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349795]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 17:19:37 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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