7.1 - RHSA-2015:2550

Problem Description:

Updated libxml2 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

Several denial of service flaws were found in libxml2, a library providing support for reading, modifying, and writing XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU, leak potentially sensitive information, or in certain cases crash the application. (CVE-2015-1819, CVE-2015-5312, CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499, CVE-2015-7500 CVE-2015-7941, CVE-2015-7942, CVE-2015-8241, CVE-2015-8242, CVE-2015-8317, BZ#1213957, BZ#1281955)

Red Hat would like to thank the GNOME project for reporting CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499, CVE-2015-7500, CVE-2015-8241, CVE-2015-8242, and CVE-2015-8317. Upstream acknowledges Kostya Serebryany of Google as the original reporter of CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499, and CVE-2015-7500; Hugh Davenport as the original reporter of CVE-2015-8241 and CVE-2015-8242; and Hanno Boeck as the original reporter of CVE-2015-8317. The CVE-2015-1819 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

All libxml2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1211278 - CVE-2015-1819 libxml2: denial of service processing a crafted XML document 1213957 - libxml2: out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML comment 1274222 - CVE-2015-7941 libxml2: Out-of-bounds memory access 1276297 - CVE-2015-7942 libxml2: heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseConditionalSections() 1276693 - CVE-2015-5312 libxml2: CPU exhaustion when processing specially crafted XML input 1281862 - CVE-2015-7497 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey 1281879 - CVE-2015-7498 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseXmlDecl 1281925 - CVE-2015-7499 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlGROW 1281930 - CVE-2015-8317 libxml2: Out-of-bounds heap read when parsing file with unfinished xml declaration 1281936 - CVE-2015-8241 libxml2: Buffer overread with XML parser in xmlNextChar 1281943 - CVE-2015-7500 libxml2: Heap buffer overflow in xmlParseMisc 1281950 - CVE-2015-8242 libxml2: Buffer overread with HTML parser in push mode in xmlSAX2TextNode 1281955 - libxml2: Multiple out-of-bounds reads in xmlDictComputeFastKey.isra.2 and xmlDictAddString.isra.O