Bug 1338686 (CVE-2016-4447) - CVE-2016-4447 libxml2: Heap-based buffer underreads due to xmlParseName
Summary: CVE-2016-4447 libxml2: Heap-based buffer underreads due to xmlParseName
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-4447
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1340367 1340369 1340370 1340371 1349794 1349795
Blocks: 1332827 1340339 1395463
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Reported: 2016-05-23 09:32 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:49 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:52:16 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1292 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: libxml2 security update 2016-07-18 17:29:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2957 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP 2.4.23 Release 2016-12-16 03:11:19 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-23 09:32:10 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in the libxml2 library. A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash due to a heap-based buffer underread in xmlParseName.

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759573

Upstream fix:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=00906759053986b8079985644172085f74331f83
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 10:32:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1292 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 09:39:44 UTC 
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349794]
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-24 09:39:54 UTC 
Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1349795]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 22:18:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:2957 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
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