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Bug 1396540 - (CVE-2016-9063) CVE-2016-9063 firefox: Possible integer overflow to fix inside XML_Parse in Expat
CVE-2016-9063 firefox: Possible integer overflow to fix inside XML_Parse in E...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20161115,reported=2...
: Reopened, Security
Depends On: 1462755 1462757 1462756 1462758 1478230
Blocks: 1392803 1462763
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Reported: 2016-11-18 10:24 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-10-19 17:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-24 00:23:49 EST
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-18 10:24:54 EST
An integer overflow during the parsing of XML using the Expat library.

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/#CVE-2016-9063
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-18 10:25:06 EST
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Gustavo Grieco
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-24 00:23:49 EST
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2017-06-19 09:10:36 EDT
Created compat-expat1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1462758]


Created expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1462756]


Created expat21 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1462755]


Created mingw-expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1462757]
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-07-03 03:44:40 EDT
Expat upstream fixed this issue via the following commit:

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/d4f735b88d9932bd5039df2335eefdd0723dbe20
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-08-03 23:52:54 EDT
Created mingw-expat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1478230]

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