libxml2: CVE-2018-14404

* CVE-2018-14404
A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval()
function of libxml2 when parsing invalid XPath expression. Applications processing
untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of libxml2 library may be vulnerable to
denial of service attack due to crash of the application.

Affects libxml <= 2.9.8

CVE: CVE-2018-14404
Ref: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-14404

(From OE-Core rev: 06d7f9039b005c2112e28336ac1c30e5120ec815)

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Sinan Kaya
2018-10-05 00:39:07 +00:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 967d42170e
commit 536412ec4d
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-${PV}.tar.gz;name=libtar \
file://libxml-m4-use-pkgconfig.patch \
file://0001-Make-ptest-run-the-python-tests-if-python-is-enabled.patch \
file://fix-execution-of-ptests.patch \
file://CVE-2018-14404.patch \
"
SRC_URI[libtar.md5sum] = "896608641a08b465098a40ddf51cefba"