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Bug 597116 - <dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.4-r1: NULL pointer deref in XPointer range-to
Summary: <dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.4-r1: NULL pointer deref in XPointer range-to
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/...
Whiteboard: A3 [glsa]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 589816 CVE-2016-4658 597114
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Reported: 2016-10-14 14:10 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-06-08 21:03 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Package list:
=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.4-r1
Runtime testing required: ---
stable-bot: sanity-check+

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-10-14 14:10:15 UTC 
From ${URL} :

Fix NULL pointer deref in XPointer range-to
- Check for errors after evaluating first operand.
- Add sanity check for empty stack.

Found with afl-fuzz.


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-19 00:33:20 UTC 
Patch is not present in latest 2.9.4 release.
Comment 2 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-02 06:46:15 UTC 
Security bump to -r1 in coordination with leio.

@maintainer(s), please let us know when you are ready to stabilize.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=060503be258912e25b6da77ca79d450553ed0be3
Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-04 13:07:10 UTC 
amd64 stable
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-04 17:09:54 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 5 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-05 12:36:33 UTC 
Stable on alpha.
Comment 6 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2017-01-08 18:32:52 UTC 
arm stable
Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-10 09:59:12 UTC 
Stable for PPC64.
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-11 10:48:58 UTC 
sparc stable
Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 01:32:24 UTC 
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 10 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 08:33:53 UTC 
ia64/ppc bump
Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-15 16:00:32 UTC 
ppc stable
Comment 12 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-01-16 21:26:46 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-37 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).
Comment 13 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-16 21:27:50 UTC 
Re-opening for remaining arch.
Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 14:36:59 UTC 
ia64 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Comment 15 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 15:09:07 UTC 
cleanup done to the extent possible with arm64, m68k, s390 and sh still there.
Comment 16 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-06-08 21:03:51 UTC 
All done.