Bug 2322189 - CVE-2024-50614 tinyxml2: reachable assertion in GetCharacterRef()
Summary: CVE-2024-50614 tinyxml2: reachable assertion in GetCharacterRef()
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tinyxml2
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Beasley
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxm...
Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["173232ed-6148-4474-a4c2-5...
Depends On: 2350891
Blocks: CVE-2024-50614
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-28 19:35 UTC by Robb Gatica
Modified: 2025-08-23 23:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tinyxml2-11.0.0-1.fc44 tinyxml2-11.0.0-1.fc43
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2025-08-23 23:26:26 UTC
Type: ---
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Github leethomason tinyxml2 issues 996 0 None open Reachable assertion 'mult <= UINT_MAX / 16' failed in tinyxml2::XMLUtil::GetCharacterRef 2025-08-15 21:04:52 UTC

Description Robb Gatica 2024-10-28 19:35:20 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322054

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2025-04-28 14:04:28 UTC
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Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2025-04-29 09:22:16 UTC
Rawhide still affected. Possible fix in 10.1, but not confirmed by upstream:
https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/996#issuecomment-2715203587 .

11.0 is out, too.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2025-08-15 13:48:10 UTC
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 5 Ben Beasley 2025-08-15 16:03:46 UTC
I asked upstream for input in https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/996#issuecomment-3192009888. I’ll work on shipping the probable fix https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/commit/494735de30c946bc7d684c65ff8ece05beeb232d in EPEL10 and Fedora 42+. I do not yet know if it will be practical to backport the probable fix to tinyxml2 9.0.0 in F41 and EPEL9.

Comment 6 Ben Beasley 2025-08-15 17:17:11 UTC
It looks like 10.1.0 accidentally changed ABI without bumping the SONAME version[1], so the way forward will be to go straight to 11.0.0 (bug 2350891) in F43+. That at least fixes CVE-2024-50615; hopefully it fixes CVE-2024-50614 as well.

I don’t think I will be able to invest the time to try to backport the fix to 10.0.0 or to 9.0.0 without breaking ABI, so F42, F41, EPEL10, and EPEL9 will have to remain as they are. PR’s are welcome, if someone turns out to be more invested in this than I am.

[1] https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/1018

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2025-08-23 23:13:39 UTC
FEDORA-2025-7c42801720 (ags-3.6.2.12-4.fc44, bullet-3.08-15.fc44, and 18 more) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-7c42801720

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2025-08-23 23:14:05 UTC
FEDORA-2025-9b8c8ca077 (ags-3.6.2.12-4.fc43, bullet-3.08-15.fc43, and 18 more) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-9b8c8ca077

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2025-08-23 23:26:26 UTC
FEDORA-2025-7c42801720 (ags-3.6.2.12-4.fc44, bullet-3.08-15.fc44, and 18 more) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2025-08-23 23:26:38 UTC
FEDORA-2025-9b8c8ca077 (ags-3.6.2.12-4.fc43, bullet-3.08-15.fc43, and 18 more) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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