Bug 1350481 (CVE-2016-5827) - CVE-2016-5827 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icaltime_from_string
Summary: CVE-2016-5827 libical: Heap buffer over-read in icaltime_from_string
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5827
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: 1350482 1350483 1350484
Blocks: 1350494
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-27 14:43 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-25 15:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-09-13 11:44:11 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 14:43:15 UTC 
Heap buffer over-read vulnerability was found in libical 0.47 in icaltime_from_string function caused by passing malformed input to icalparser_parse_string function.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/604
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 14:44:41 UTC 
Created thunderbird tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1350483]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-06-27 14:44:47 UTC 
Created libical tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1350482]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1350484]
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2016-06-28 05:57:39 UTC 
(In reply to Adam Mariš from comment #0)
> Upstream bugs (not public yet):
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280832
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281041
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

I cannot open any of those bug reports right now. Is there any patch for libical, or anything useful?
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