10 - RHSA-2016:1292

Problem Description:

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) 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 HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, 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.

Security Fix(es):

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-1834, CVE-2016-1840)

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to crash. (CVE-2016-1762, CVE-2016-1833, CVE-2016-1835, CVE-2016-1836, CVE-2016-1837, CVE-2016-1838, CVE-2016-1839, CVE-2016-3627, CVE-2016-3705, CVE-2016-4447, CVE-2016-4448, CVE-2016-4449)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

For the update to take effect, all applications linked to the libxml2 library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

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

1319829 - CVE-2016-3627 libxml2: stack exhaustion while parsing xml files in recovery mode 1332443 - CVE-2016-3705 libxml2: stack overflow before detecting invalid XML file 1338682 - CVE-2016-1833 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar 1338686 - CVE-2016-4447 libxml2: Heap-based buffer underreads due to xmlParseName 1338691 - CVE-2016-1835 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs 1338696 - CVE-2016-1837 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in htmlPArsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral 1338700 - CVE-2016-4448 libxml2: Format string vulnerability 1338701 - CVE-2016-4449 libxml2: Inappropriate fetch of entities content 1338702 - CVE-2016-1836 libxml2: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey 1338703 - CVE-2016-1839 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString 1338705 - CVE-2016-1838 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlPArserPrintFileContextInternal 1338706 - CVE-2016-1840 libxml2: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParserPosCharGroup 1338708 - CVE-2016-1834 libxml2: Heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat 1338711 - CVE-2016-1762 libxml2: Heap-based buffer-overread in xmlNextChar