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Bug 597114

Summary: <dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.4-r1: null pointer dereference
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: gnome
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e905f08123e4a6e7731549e6f09dadff4cab65bd
Whiteboard: A3 [glsa blocked]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 597116    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-10-14 14:07:28 UTC
From ${URL} :

Fix more NULL pointer derefs in xpointer.c
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 00:48:02 UTC
Patch not present in 2.9.4 release.  Will need to backport or await upstream inclusion.
Comment 2 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-19 01:02:07 UTC
(In reply to Aaron Bauman from comment #1)
> Patch not present in 2.9.4 release.  Will need to backport or await upstream
> inclusion.

My apologies, but backport is the wrong terminology.  

Patch not present in 2.9.4.  Will require addition in tree or await upstream inclusion.
Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-01-16 21:26:39 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).