Bug 461015 (CVE-2008-3529) - CVE-2008-3529 libxml2: long entity name heap buffer overflow
Summary: CVE-2008-3529 libxml2: long entity name heap buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3529
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 461019 461020 461021 461022 461023 461024
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-03 14:29 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-09-30 19:35:37 UTC
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Proposed patch from Daniel Veillard (against 2.6.32) (677 bytes, patch)
2008-09-03 14:37 UTC, Tomas Hoger 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0884 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libxml2 security update 2008-09-11 13:50:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0886 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libxml2 security update 2008-09-11 13:45:08 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2008-09-03 14:29:00 UTC 
It was discovered, that libxml2 does not properly handle long XML entity names.  In the xmlParseAttValueComplex() function in parser.c, when entity name is not substituted with entity value, but is sent to output unchanged, buffer used to store entity name may not be grown sufficiently in case of long entity names, resulting in a heap buffer overflow.

Issue is already fixed upstream in version 2.7.0.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-03 14:37:47 UTC 
Created attachment 315648 [details]
Proposed patch from Daniel Veillard (against 2.6.32)
Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-11 13:08:04 UTC 
Lifting embargo.
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