Bug 1579558 (CVE-2018-11210) - CVE-2018-11210 tinyxml2: heap-based buffer over-read in the XMLDocument::Parse function
Summary: CVE-2018-11210 tinyxml2: heap-based buffer over-read in the XMLDocument::Pars...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-11210
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: 1579559 1579560 1579561
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-17 22:40 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:23:27 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-17 22:40:24 UTC 
A flaw was found in TinyXML2 6.2.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the XMLDocument::Parse function in libtinyxml2.so.


References:
https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2/issues/675
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-17 22:40:47 UTC 
Created tinyxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1579560]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1579559]
Comment 3 Rich Mattes 2018-05-26 23:23:28 UTC 
It looks like this bug was closed upstream citing the fact that this was an incorrect use of the API.  Should we still try to look for ways to mitigate the issue, or defer to upstream and close these bugs out?
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