Bug 10868

Summary:	CVE-2016-5131 for libxml
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Security - Recipe Upgrade	Reporter:	Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen>
Component:	security	Assignee:	Saul Wold <sgw>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Undecided	CC:	bluelightning, stephano
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ismo Puustinen 2017-01-02 07:39:22 UTC

See https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-5131 :

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2017-09-27 22:56:18 UTC

The patch for this is in master, pyro and morty - can we mark this resolved?

Comment 2 Stephano Cetola 2018-02-02 20:38:43 UTC

pyro:
96ef568f75dded56a2123b63dcc8b443f796afe0
640bd2b98ff33e49b42f1087650ebe20d92259a4

morty:
68b0f3a0bf8dfdf49be4aed1745a7f50662c555d
1e284447b9bf42e1fd6080f5a50fe01c8267a4e6