Bug 69154 – dev-libs/libxml2: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Dan Margolis (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 08:32:20 UTC]

Above report claims exploitable buffer overflow requiring the application using libxml2 to parse untrusted xml or for the attacker to own/spoof DNS for the victim.

[Comment 1 Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-10-28 12:46:11 UTC]

gnome herd,

2.6.15 was released yesterday to fix these issues, please bump.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-30 07:29:43 UTC]

added libxml2-2.6.15-r1

[Comment 3 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-10-30 09:05:01 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable

[Comment 4 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2004-10-30 09:21:25 UTC]

sparc stable.

[Comment 5 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2004-10-30 09:52:39 UTC]

stable on amd64

[Comment 6 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) 2004-10-30 11:01:03 UTC]

Stable on ppc.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-10-30 21:25:52 UTC]

arm/ia64/s390 stable

hppa wont happen until binutils-2.15.92.0.2 goes stable for hppa ... and we really havent had much time to test it :/

[Comment 8 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) 2004-10-31 02:00:57 UTC]

Stable on alpha.

[Comment 9 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2004-11-01 01:45:51 UTC]

this seems to be CAN-2004-0989 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0989>

[Comment 10 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-11-01 02:20:55 UTC]

ppc64: please mark stable so that the GLSA can go out.

[Comment 11 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-11-01 13:24:05 UTC]

stable on ppc64.

Markus

[Comment 12 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-11-02 09:38:28 UTC]

GLSA 200411-05
hppa, mips : please mark stable to benefit from GLSA

[Comment 13 Hardave Riar (RETIRED) 2004-11-05 03:57:59 UTC]

Stable on mips.