Bug 17024 - libxml2 new security issue CVE-2015-7942
Summary: libxml2 new security issue CVE-2015-7942
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact: Sec team
URL: http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/662058/
Whiteboard: has_procedure advisory MGA5-64-OK
Keywords: validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-10-26 21:14 CET by David Walser
Modified: 2015-11-02 21:22 CET (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: libxml2-2.9.1-11.1.mga5.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments

Description David Walser 2015-10-26 21:14:03 CET
Debian-LTS has issued an advisory on October 25:
http://lwn.net/Alerts/662021/

Patched packages uploaded for Mageia 5 and Cauldron.

Advisory:
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Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability:

Crafted xml causes out of bound memory access in libxml2 due to a heap
buffer-overflow in xmlParseConditionalSections() in parser.c (CVE-2015-7942).

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7942
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756456
http://lwn.net/Alerts/662021/
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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libxml2_2-2.9.1-11.2.mga5
libxml2-utils-2.9.1-11.2.mga5
libxml2-python-2.9.1-11.2.mga5
libxml2-devel-2.9.1-11.2.mga5

from libxml2-2.9.1-11.2.mga5.src.rpm

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 David Walser 2015-10-26 21:14:18 CET
Testing procedure:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_procedure:Libxml2

Whiteboard: (none) => has_procedure

Comment 2 Shlomi Fish 2015-11-02 18:35:20 CET
(In reply to David Walser from comment #1)
> Testing procedure:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_procedure:Libxml2

Tested on MGA5-64-OK and OKing it. I also ran the perl-XML-LibXML tests through the new version and they all pass.

CC: (none) => shlomif
Whiteboard: has_procedure => has_procedure MGA5-64-OK

Comment 3 claire robinson 2015-11-02 19:17:05 CET
Thanks Shlomi.

Validating. Advisory uploaded.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: has_procedure MGA5-64-OK => has_procedure advisory MGA5-64-OK
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 4 Mageia Robot 2015-11-02 21:22:25 CET
An update for this issue has been pushed to Mageia Updates repository.

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0423.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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