From ${URL} : Description : Out of bound read in libxml2 with crafted xml input. It is detected using Fuzzer - American fuzzy loop. Reported discussion : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744980 Upstream Fixes : 1. https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7dfab7411cbf545f359dd3157e5df1eb0e7ce31 2. https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9b8512337d14c8ddf662fcb98b0135f225a1c489 @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.
Upstream patches applied in 2.9.2-r2.
CVE: The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941. Once again, not sure why this is counted as a common package. Re-designating to B3. GLSA Vote: No
