Bug 1375104 (CVE-2016-5825) - CVE-2016-5825 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icalparser_parse_string function
Summary: CVE-2016-5825 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icalparser_parse_string function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5825
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1350482 1350483 1350484
Blocks: 1350494
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Reported: 2016-09-12 08:06 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-25 15:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-09-15 04:37:03 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-12 08:06:57 UTC 
Heap buffer over-read vulnerability in libical 0.47 was found in icalparser_parse_string function that can be triggered by malformed ICS file.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/604
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2016-09-12 09:49:53 UTC 
(In reply to Adam Mariš from comment #0)
> Upstream bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832

Just a note that Mozilla is not a libical upstream. The libical upstream is http://libical.github.io/libical/ and used to be on SourceForge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeassociation/
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