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Debian 9 Stretch: DLA-2369-1 Critical: Libxml2 Buffer Overflow Fix

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 9, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
The Debian LTS team has rolled out a security patch for libxml2 addressing various vulnerabilities. It is crucial to update this package promptly to maintain your system’s security.
Several security vulnerabilities were corrected in libxml2, the GNOME XML library

Summary

CVE-2017-8872

Global buffer-overflow in the htmlParseTryOrFinish function.

CVE-2017-18258

The xz_head function in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file,
because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to
what is required for a legitimate file.

CVE-2018-14404

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the
xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 when parsing an
invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case.
Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs may be
vulnerable to a denial of service attack.

CVE-2018-14567

If the option --with-lzma is used, allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted XML file.

CVE-2019-19956

The xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover function has a memory leak
related to newDoc->oldNs.

CVE-2019-20388

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Package: libxml2
Version: 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u3
CVE ID: CVE-2017-8872 CVE-2017-18258 CVE-2018-14404
Debian Bug: 895245 862450 949583 969529 949582

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