Out-of-Bounds Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u5
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBXML2-429383
- published 18 May 2017
- disclosed 18 May 2017
Introduced: 18 May 2017
CVE-2017-9048 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
libxml2
to version 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2
package and not the libxml2
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The function xmlSnprintfElementContent in valid.c is supposed to recursively dump the element content definition into a char buffer 'buf' of size 'size'. At the end of the routine, the function may strcat two more characters without checking whether the current strlen(buf) + 2 < size. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9048
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98556
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9048
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E