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CVE-2017-9047

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801. The function xmlSnprintfElementContent in valid.c is supposed to recursively dump the element content definition into a char buffer \'buf\' of size \'size\'. The variable len is assigned strlen(buf). If the content->type is XML_ELEMENT_CONTENT_ELEMENT, then (i) the content->prefix is appended to buf (if it actually fits) whereupon (ii) content->name is written to the buffer. However, the check for whether the content->name actually fits also uses \'len\' rather than the updated buffer length strlen(buf). This allows us to write about size many bytes beyond the allocated memory. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash.

Priority: MEDIUM
CVSS v3: 7.5
Component: libxml2
Publish Date: May 18, 2017
Related ID: --
CVSS v2: High
Modified Date: May 18, 2017

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Products Affected

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Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads
Linux
Wind River Linux LTS 17 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 8 Fixed LIN8-6774
8.0.0.19 --
Wind River Linux 9 Fixed LIN9-4302
9.0.0.8 --
Wind River Linux 7 Fixed -- 7.0.0.26 --
Wind River Linux LTS 21 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 22 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 18 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 19 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux CD release Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 6 Fixed -- 6.0.0.34 --
Wind River Linux LTS 23 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 24 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks
VxWorks 7 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks 6.9 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition Not Vulnerable -- -- --
eLxr
eLxr 12 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Studio Cloud Platform

Related Products

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Notes
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