fkie_cve-2017-9047
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-05-18 06:29
Modified
2024-11-21 03:35
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A buffer overflow was discovered in libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801. The function xmlSnprintfElementContent in valid.c is supposed to recursively dump the element content definition into a char buffer 'buf' of size 'size'. The variable len is assigned strlen(buf). If the content->type is XML_ELEMENT_CONTENT_ELEMENT, then (i) the content->prefix is appended to buf (if it actually fits) whereupon (ii) content->name is written to the buffer. However, the check for whether the content->name actually fits also uses 'len' rather than the updated buffer length strlen(buf). This allows us to write about "size" many bytes beyond the allocated memory. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98599Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98599Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xmlsoft libxml2 2.9.4


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