Bug 1523128 (CVE-2017-15412) - CVE-2017-15412 libxml2: Use after free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredicate() function in xpath.c
Summary: CVE-2017-15412 libxml2: Use after free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredica...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-15412
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1523143 1523144 1523145 1523146 1524241 1524242 1524243 1525811 1695417 1729857
Blocks: 1523164 1524244
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-07 09:52 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2023-09-26 13:23 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version: chromium-browser 63.0.3239.84, libxml2 2.9.6
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A use-after-free flaw was found in the libxml2 library. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application linked against libxml2 to crash when parsing a specially crafted XML file.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:32:47 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3401 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: chromium-browser security update 2017-12-08 00:30:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0287 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.23 security update 2018-02-08 17:39:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1190 0 None None None 2020-03-31 19:33:30 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-07 09:52:56 UTC 
An use after free flaw was found in the libXML component of the Chromium browser.

Upstream bug(s):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=727039

External References:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-07 10:05:54 UTC 
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1523143]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1523145]
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-07 19:31:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2017:3401 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-12-08 04:55:36 UTC 
Upstream details:

Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160
Patch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=0f3b843b3534784ef57a4f9b874238aa1fda5a73
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-12-11 03:24:00 UTC 
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524242]


Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1524241]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524243]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-08 12:39:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2018:0287 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0287
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:33:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1190 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1190
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