Bug 1714979 (CVE-2016-4609) - CVE-2016-4609 libxslt: Out-of-bounds read at xmlGetLineNoInternal()
Summary: CVE-2016-4609 libxslt: Out-of-bounds read at xmlGetLineNoInternal()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-4609
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1714986 1714987 1718101 1725528
Blocks: 1714985
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-05-29 10:21 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-10-27 10:45 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libxslt 1.1.29
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:45:33 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-05-29 10:21:32 UTC
libxslt before 9.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4607, CVE-2016-4608, CVE-2016-4610, and
CVE-2016-4612.

Reference:
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/385

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-05-29 10:30:12 UTC
Created libxslt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1714986]


Created mingw-libxslt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1714987]

Comment 5 Marco Benatto 2019-06-06 21:41:40 UTC
Upstream commit for this issue: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=8b90c9a699e0eaa98bbeec63a473ddc73aaa238c

Comment 8 Marco Benatto 2019-06-10 23:05:49 UTC
There's a bug on libxsl before version 1.1.29 where a crafted xsl stylesheet and XML document lead to an out of band
read at xmlGetLineNoInternal() from libxml2. The error happens due to improper input validation on libxslt's function
exsltSaxonLineNumberFunction() when it tries to retrieve the line number for a namespace node, this bug can be leveraged
to cause DoS as the out of band read will cause segmentation fault error.

Comment 9 Marco Benatto 2019-06-10 23:11:15 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat OpenStack will consume fixes from the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System. Therefore the package provided by Red Hat OpenStack has been marked as will not fix.

This issue affects the version of libxslt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 and was rated as having Moderated security impact by the Red Hat Product Security.
An eventual update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 may address this issue.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.


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