Bug 1358641 – CVE-2016-5131 chromium-browser: use-after-free in libxml

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Bug 1358641 - (CVE-2016-5131) CVE-2016-5131 chromium-browser: use-after-free in libxml

Summary:	CVE-2016-5131 chromium-browser: use-after-free in libxml

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5131

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:	1364323 1525811 1358710 1358711 1361439 1364322
Blocks:	1358650 1384433
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Reported:	2016-07-21 04:03 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-04-24 09:13 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	Chrome 52.0.2743.82
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Last Closed:	2018-02-26 00:01:14 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1485	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: chromium-browser security update	2016-07-26 05:18:37 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2016-07-21 04:03:06 EDT

An use-after-free flaw was found in the libxml component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=623378

External References:

https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-26 01:19:37 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2016:1485 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1485.html

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-07-29 01:43:16 EDT

Detailed analysis and explanation available in the upstream bug (currently closed) at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768428


Chromium used the following patch to fix this issue (not upstream yet):

https://codereview.chromium.org/2127493002

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-07-29 01:43:54 EDT

Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1361439]

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-05 01:31:43 EDT

Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1364322]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1364323]

Comment 6 dafox7777777 2016-11-02 11:09:20 EDT

This issue seems to be in libxml, not just chromium. Is libxml planned to be updated?

Comment 7 Doran Moppert 2017-03-23 02:09:28 EDT

Upstream patch (libxml2):

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9ab01a277d71f54d3143c2cf333c5c2e9aaedd9e

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