Summary: | <dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.8-r4: Heap-based buffer overflow when decoding an entity reference with a long name (CVE-2011-3919) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | gnome |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771896 | ||
Whiteboard: | B2 [glsa] | ||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Agostino Sarubbo
2012-01-10 11:01:04 UTC
Fixed in libxml2-2.7.8-r4, thanks for reporting! >*libxml2-2.7.8-r4 (10 Jan 2012) > > 10 Jan 2012; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> > +libxml2-2.7.8-r4.ebuild, > +files/libxml2-2.7.8-allocation-error-copying-entities.patch: > Fix heap-based overflow in parsing long entity references (CVE-2011-3919, bug > #398361, thanks to Agostino Sarubbo for reporting). (In reply to comment #1) > Fixed in libxml2-2.7.8-r4, thanks for reporting! > Great, thank you. Arches, please test and mark stable: =dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.8-r4 Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86" amd64 stable ppc/ppc64 done x86 stable alpha/arm/ia64/m68k/s390/sh/sparc stable Stable for HPPA. Filed new request in glsamaker. CVE-2011-3919 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3919): Heap-based buffer overflow in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.75, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201202-09 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201202-09.xml by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle). |