libxml2: fix CVE-2014-0191

It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read,
modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in
the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any
entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a
specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the
exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors.

Reference: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0191

(From OE-Core rev: 674bd59d5e357a4aba18c472ac21712a660a84af)

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@enea.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
index 7fb26444168e89a41558a254b2b2f532f3fb644d..60bb6b8539729dad81784cd729bb29accac2a5c5 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-${PV}.tar.gz;name=libtar \
            file://ansidecl.patch \
            file://runtest.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
+           file://libxml2-CVE-2014-0191-fix.patch \
           "
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig pythonnative ptest

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/libxml2-CVE-2014-0191-fix.patch b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/libxml2-CVE-2014-0191-fix.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..1c05ae6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/libxml2-CVE-2014-0191-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:30:56 +0800
+Subject: Do not fetch external parameter entities
+
+Unless explicitely asked for when validating or replacing entities
+with their value. Problem pointed out by Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+Reference: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0191
+
+Signed-off-by: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@enea.com>
+---
+diff -Naur libxml2-2.9.1-orig/parser.c libxml2-2.9.1/parser.c
+--- libxml2-2.9.1-orig/parser.c        2013-04-16 15:39:18.000000000 +0200
++++ libxml2-2.9.1/parser.c     2014-05-07 13:35:46.883687946 +0200
+@@ -2595,6 +2595,20 @@
+                   xmlCharEncoding enc;
+ 
+                   /*
++                   * Note: external parsed entities will not be loaded, it is
++                   * not required for a non-validating parser, unless the
++                   * option of validating, or substituting entities were
++                   * given. Doing so is far more secure as the parser will
++                   * only process data coming from the document entity by
++                   * default.
++                   */
++                    if ((entity->etype == XML_EXTERNAL_PARAMETER_ENTITY) &&
++                      ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_NOENT) == 0) &&
++                      ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_DTDVALID) == 0) &&
++                      (ctxt->validate == 0))
++                      return;
++
++                  /*
+                    * handle the extra spaces added before and after
+                    * c.f. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#as-PE
+                    * this is done independently.