[OE-core] [PATCH] libxml2: Fix CVE-2018-14404

Andrej Valek andrej.valek at siemens.com
Thu Aug 9 08:06:37 UTC 2018


Fix nullptr deref with XPath logic ops

If the XPath stack is corrupted, for example by a misbehaving extension
function, the "and" and "or" XPath operators could dereference NULL
pointers. Check that the XPath stack isn't empty and optimize the
logic operators slightly.

CVE: CVE-2018-14404
Signed-off-by: Andrej Valek <andrej.valek at siemens.com>
---
 .../libxml/libxml2/fix-CVE-2018-14404.patch        | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb          |  1 +
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/fix-CVE-2018-14404.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/fix-CVE-2018-14404.patch b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/fix-CVE-2018-14404.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..21668e25ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/fix-CVE-2018-14404.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+libxml2-2.9.8: Fix CVE-2018-14404
+
+[No upstream tracking] -- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/5
+ -- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817
+ -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985
+
+xpath: Fix nullptr deref with XPath logic ops
+
+If the XPath stack is corrupted, for example by a misbehaving extension
+function, the "and" and "or" XPath operators could dereference NULL
+pointers. Check that the XPath stack isn't empty and optimize the
+logic operators slightly.
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/a436374994c47b12d5de1b8b1d191a098fa23594]
+CVE: CVE-2018-14404
+Signed-off-by: Andrej Valek <andrej.valek at siemens.com>
+
+diff --git a/xpath.c b/xpath.c
+index f440696..75cac5c 100644
+--- a/xpath.c
++++ b/xpath.c
+@@ -13297,9 +13297,8 @@ xmlXPathCompOpEval(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, xmlXPathStepOpPtr op)
+ 		return(0);
+ 	    }
+             xmlXPathBooleanFunction(ctxt, 1);
+-            arg1 = valuePop(ctxt);
+-            arg1->boolval &= arg2->boolval;
+-            valuePush(ctxt, arg1);
++	    if (ctxt->value != NULL)
++		ctxt->value->boolval &= arg2->boolval;
+ 	    xmlXPathReleaseObject(ctxt->context, arg2);
+             return (total);
+         case XPATH_OP_OR:
+@@ -13323,9 +13322,8 @@ xmlXPathCompOpEval(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, xmlXPathStepOpPtr op)
+ 		return(0);
+ 	    }
+             xmlXPathBooleanFunction(ctxt, 1);
+-            arg1 = valuePop(ctxt);
+-            arg1->boolval |= arg2->boolval;
+-            valuePush(ctxt, arg1);
++	    if (ctxt->value != NULL)
++		ctxt->value->boolval |= arg2->boolval;
+ 	    xmlXPathReleaseObject(ctxt->context, arg2);
+             return (total);
+         case XPATH_OP_EQUAL:
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb
index 27a648e97a..4ebd2ef383 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.8.bb
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-${PV}.tar.gz;name=libtar \
            file://0001-Make-ptest-run-the-python-tests-if-python-is-enabled.patch \
            file://fix-execution-of-ptests.patch \
            file://fix-CVE-2017-8872.patch \
+           file://fix-CVE-2018-14404.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[libtar.md5sum] = "b786e353e2aa1b872d70d5d1ca0c740d"
-- 
2.11.0




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