Fedora 24: libplist Security Advisory - Memory Issues and Updates

libplist is a library for manipulating Apple Binary and XML Property Lists

Version 2.0.0 Changes: * New light-weight custom XML parser * Remove

libxml2 dependency * Refactor binary plist parsing * Improved malformed XML

and binary plist detection and error handling * Add parser debug/error output

(when compiled with --enable-debug), controlled via environment variables *

Fix unicode character handling * Add PLIST_IS_* helper macros for the

different node types * Extend date/time range and date conversion issues *

Add plist_is_binary() and plist_from_memory() functions to the interface *

Plug several memory leaks * Speed improvements for handling large plist files

Includes security fixes for: * CVE-2017-6440 * CVE-2017-6439 *

CVE-2017-6438 * CVE-2017-6437 * CVE-2017-6436 * CVE-2017-6435 *

CVE-2017-5836 * CVE-2017-5835 * CVE-2017-5834 * CVE-2017-5545 *

CVE-2017-5209 ... and several others that didn't receive any CVE (yet).

[ 1 ] Bug #1432965 - CVE-2017-6440 libplist: Memory allocation error in parse_data_node

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432965

[ 2 ] Bug #1432959 - CVE-2017-6439 libplist: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_string_node

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432959

[ 3 ] Bug #1432956 - CVE-2017-6438 libplist: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_unicode_node

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432956

[ 4 ] Bug #1432954 - CVE-2017-6437 libplist: Out-of-bounds heap read in base64encode function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432954

[ 5 ] Bug #1432951 - CVE-2017-6436 libplist: Integer overflow in parse_string_node

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432951

[ 6 ] Bug #1412613 - CVE-2017-5209 libplist: base64decode buffer over-read via split encoded Apple Property List data

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412613

su -c 'dnf upgrade libplist' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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