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Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function

From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:49:12 -0500 (EST)

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HTMLparser.c line:2517 :

       return(xmlDictLookup(ctxt->dict, ctxt->input->cur - len, len));

"ctxt->input->cur - len"  cause Out-of-bounds Read.

heap-buffer-overflow
READ of size 1


Use CVE-2016-2073.

From: Salvatore Bonaccorso

While checking upstream bugzilla to see if that was reported I noticed

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749115

Does this have the same root cause?


The CVE-2016-2073 PoC is an '&' followed by three characters, one of
which is a 0273 character. The PoC in 749115 has an unexpected
character immediately after a "<!DOCTYPE html" substring. We feel that
the CVE-2016-2073 report can have that unique ID on the basis of (at
least) a different attack methodology. CVE assignment for 749115 is
also possible unless 749115 already has a CVE ID.

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Current thread:

Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function limingxing (Jan 25)
- Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function Salvatore Bonaccorso (Jan 26)
- Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function cve-assign (Jan 26)
  - Re: Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function Salvatore Bonaccorso (Jan 26)
    - Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function cve-assign (Feb 03)