https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262849
Bug ID: 1262849
Summary: libxml2: Out-of-bounds memory access when parsing
unclosed HTMl comment
Product: Security Response
Component: vulnerability
Keywords: Security
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability when parsing unclosed HTMl comment
was found in libxml2. By entering a unclosed html comment such as <!-- the
libxml2 parser didn't stop parsing at the end of the buffer, causing random
memory to be included in the parsed comment.
CVE request:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/540
Upstream was notified, but patch is not released yet. However, a patch for
nokogiri, which uses embedded libxml2, was proposed:
https://github.com/Shopify/nokogiri/compare/1b1fcad8bd64ab70256666c38d2c998e86ade8c0...master
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