Bug 2112766 (CVE-2016-3709) - CVE-2016-3709 libxml2: Incorrect server side include parsing can lead to XSS
Summary: CVE-2016-3709 libxml2: Incorrect server side include parsing can lead to XSS
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-3709
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: 2121133 2112780 2112781 2120780 2120781 2120782 2121134
Blocks: 2112769
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-08-01 05:31 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2024-03-19 02:28 UTC (History)
48 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libxml2 2.9.11
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A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in libxml2. A specially crafted input, when serialized and re-parsed by the libxml2 library, will result in a document with element attributes that did not exist in the original document.
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Last Closed: 2022-12-04 05:33:14 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7715 0 None None None 2022-11-08 10:15:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:4767 0 None None None 2023-08-28 12:58:07 UTC

Description Sandipan Roy 2022-08-01 05:31:37 UTC 
Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in libxml after commit 960f0e2.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2018-January/msg00010.html
Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-08-01 05:45:02 UTC 
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2112780]


Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2112781]
Comment 4 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-08-23 17:48:44 UTC 
Reference:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769760

Upstream patch:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/c1ba6f54d32b707ca6d91cb3257ce9de82876b6f
Comment 6 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-08-24 14:45:49 UTC 
Created qt5-qtwebengine tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 2121133]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2121134]
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 10:15:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7715 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7715
Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-04 05:33:10 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-2016-3709
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2023-08-28 12:58:03 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2023:4767 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4767
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