Bug 1375104 – CVE-2016-5825 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icalparser_parse_string function

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Bug 1375104 - (CVE-2016-5825) CVE-2016-5825 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icalparser_parse_string function

Summary:	CVE-2016-5825 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icalparser_parse_string function

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5825

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

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Depends On:	1350482 1350483 1350484
Blocks:	1350494
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Reported:	2016-09-12 04:06 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2016-09-15 00:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-12 04:06:57 EDT

Heap buffer over-read vulnerability in libical 0.47 was found in icalparser_parse_string function that can be triggered by malformed ICS file.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832

CVE assignment:

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

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2016-09-12 05:49:53 EDT

(In reply to Adam Mariš from comment #0)
> Upstream bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832

Just a note that Mozilla is not a libical upstream. The libical upstream is http://libical.github.io/libical/ and used to be on SourceForge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeassociation/

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