libxml2: add security fix
authorBaruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:07:58 +0000 (11:07 +0200)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:12:54 +0000 (10:12 +0100)
CVE-2017-8872: An attackers can cause a denial of service (buffer
over-read) or information disclosure.

Patch from the upstream bug tracker.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
package/libxml2/0001-CVE-2017-8872.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/package/libxml2/0001-CVE-2017-8872.patch b/package/libxml2/0001-CVE-2017-8872.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..b7a75c1
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+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
+