Bug#882613: libxml2: CVE-2017-16932: Infinite recursion in parameter entities

2017-11-26 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Whilst cherry picking the commit we can verify the testcase attached in the commit is correctly detected, a minimialized variant of it would not work, the minimalized variant I mean of , [ 759579.xml ] | | %z; | ]> | ` is , [ minimized-759579.xml ] | | %z; | ]> | `---

Bug#882613: libxml2: CVE-2017-16932: Infinite recursion in parameter entities

2017-11-24 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Source: libxml2 Version: 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.1 Severity: important Tags: patch security upstream Forwarded: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579 Hi, the following vulnerability was published for libxml2. CVE-2017-16932[0]: | parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recur