Bug 1523128 – CVE-2017-15412 chromium-browser: use after free in libxml

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Bug 1523128 - (CVE-2017-15412) CVE-2017-15412 chromium-browser: use after free in libxml

Summary:	CVE-2017-15412 chromium-browser: use after free in libxml

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-15412

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1524241 1524243 1525811 1523143 1523144 1523145 1523146 1524242
Blocks:	1523164 1524244
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Reported:	2017-12-07 04:52 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-02-08 07:39 EST (History)
CC List:	16 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	chromium-browser 63.0.3239.84
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:3401	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: chromium-browser security update	2017-12-07 19:30:35 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:0287	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.23 security update	2018-02-08 12:39:22 EST

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-07 04:52:56 EST

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=727039

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-07 05:05:54 EST

Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1523143]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1523145]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-07 14:31:33 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2017:3401 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-12-07 23:55:36 EST

Upstream details:

Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160
Patch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=0f3b843b3534784ef57a4f9b874238aa1fda5a73

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-12-10 22:24:00 EST

Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524242]


Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1524241]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524243]

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-08 07:39:29 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2018:0287 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0287

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