--- /dev/null
+From 8b329effb610f4138e4e680f6a6867570f6d6179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
+Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:58:11 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] CVE-2017-8872
+
+Taken from attachment to upstream bug report comment #9.
+
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200#c9
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=366193&action=diff
+
+Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
+---
+ parser.c | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
+index 1c5e036ea265..025111067ae8 100644
+--- a/parser.c
++++ b/parser.c
+@@ -12467,6 +12467,10 @@ xmlHaltParser(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt) {
+ ctxt->input->cur = BAD_CAST"";
+ ctxt->input->base = ctxt->input->cur;
+ ctxt->input->end = ctxt->input->cur;
++ if (ctxt->input->buf)
++ xmlBufEmpty (ctxt->input->buf->buffer);
++ else
++ ctxt->input->length = 0;
+ }
+ }
+
+--
+2.15.1
+