Bug 1954232 (CVE-2021-3517) - CVE-2021-3517 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c
Summary: CVE-2021-3517 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInterna...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-3517
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: 1954233 1954234 1956999 1957000 1957001 1957002
Blocks: 1952638 1954253
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Reported: 2021-04-27 18:54 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-04-20 19:42 UTC (History)
21 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libxml2 2.9.11
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There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2. An attacker who is able to supply a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with the affected functionality of libxml2 could trigger an out-of-bounds read. The most likely impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity if an attacker is able to use memory information to further exploit the application.
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Last Closed: 2021-06-29 16:41:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:2569 0 None None None 2021-06-29 16:27:45 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1389 0 None None None 2022-04-20 19:42:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1390 0 None None None 2022-04-20 19:30:31 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-27 18:54:09 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in libxml2 when processing truncated UTF-8 input.

Reference:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/235

Upstream patch:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/bf22713507fe1fc3a2c4b525cf0a88c2dc87a3a2
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-27 18:54:40 UTC 
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1954234]


Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1954233]
Comment 3 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-30 12:36:44 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: zodf0055980 (SQLab NCTU Taiwan)
Comment 6 Todd Cullum 2021-05-04 20:16:55 UTC 
Upstream patch: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/bf22713507fe1fc3a2c4b525cf0a88c2dc87a3a2
Comment 7 Todd Cullum 2021-05-04 22:22:27 UTC 
Statement:

This flaw is out of support scope for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. To learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux support life cycles, please see https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata .
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-06-29 16:27:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:2569 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2569
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-29 16:41:02 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3517
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2022-04-20 19:30:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2022:1390 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1390
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2022-04-20 19:41:57 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7
  JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2022:1389 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1389
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