CVE-2017-9048
Published: 18 May 2017
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.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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libxml2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(2.9.4+dfsg1-3.1)
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| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.3)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Released
(2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.10)
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Patches: Upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=932cc9896ab41475d4aa429c27d9afd175959d74 |
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