Bug 1281925 (CVE-2015-7499) - CVE-2015-7499 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlGROW
Summary: CVE-2015-7499 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlGROW
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7499
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: Engineering1284794 Engineering1286495 Engineering1286496 Engineering1286497 Red Hat1323031
Blocks: Embargoed1274223 Embargoed1281960 Embargoed1318206
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Reported: 2015-11-13 20:27 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:43 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to leak potentially sensitive information.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:45:18 UTC

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Upstream patch (547 bytes, patch)
2015-11-13 20:28 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2549 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libxml2 security update 2015-12-07 15:13:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2550 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libxml2 security update 2015-12-07 16:59:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1089 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0.3 security update 2016-05-17 20:12:21 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 20:27:29 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in xmlGROW allowing the attacker to read the memory out of bounds.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756479
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-13 20:28:54 UTC 
Created attachment 1093836 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-11-16 14:04:31 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the GNOME project
Upstream: Kostya Serebryany
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-01 09:59:22 UTC 
Upstream commits:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=28cd9cb747a94483f4aea7f0968d202c20bb4cfc
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=35bcb1d758ed70aa7b257c9c3b3ff55e54e3d0da
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 10:14:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:2549 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-07 12:00:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2550 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-17 16:14:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
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