Bug 1350481 – CVE-2016-5827 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icaltime_from_string

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Bug 1350481 - (CVE-2016-5827) CVE-2016-5827 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icaltime_from_string

Summary:	CVE-2016-5827 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icaltime_from_string

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5827

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

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Depends On:	1350482 1350483 1350484
Blocks:	1350494
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Reported:	2016-06-27 10:43 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2016-09-14 06:15 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2016-09-13 07:44:11 EDT
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 10:43:15 EDT

Heap buffer over-read vulnerability was found in libical 0.47 in icaltime_from_string function caused by passing malformed input to icalparser_parse_string function.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/604

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 10:44:41 EDT

Created thunderbird tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1350483]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 10:44:47 EDT

Created libical tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1350482]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1350484]

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2016-06-28 01:57:39 EDT

(In reply to Adam Mariš from comment #0)
> Upstream bugs (not public yet):
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> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281041
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

I cannot open any of those bug reports right now. Is there any patch for libical, or anything useful?

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