Topic

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

Security Fix(es):

• libxml2: Use after free triggered by XPointer paths beginning with range-to (CVE-2016-5131)
• libxml2: Use after free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredicate() function in xpath.c (CVE-2017-15412)
• libxml2: DoS caused by incorrect error detection during XZ decompression (CVE-2015-8035)
• libxml2: NULL pointer dereference in xmlXPathCompOpEval() function in xpath.c (CVE-2018-14404)
• libxml2: Unrestricted memory usage in xz_head() function in xzlib.c (CVE-2017-18258)
• libxml2: Infinite loop caused by incorrect error detection during LZMA decompression (CVE-2018-14567)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1277146 - CVE-2015-8035 libxml2: DoS caused by incorrect error detection during XZ decompression
• BZ - 1358641 - CVE-2016-5131 libxml2: Use after free triggered by XPointer paths beginning with range-to
• BZ - 1523128 - CVE-2017-15412 libxml2: Use after free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredicate() function in xpath.c
• BZ - 1566749 - CVE-2017-18258 libxml2: Unrestricted memory usage in xz_head() function in xzlib.c
• BZ - 1595985 - CVE-2018-14404 libxml2: NULL pointer dereference in xmlXPathCompOpEval() function in xpath.c
• BZ - 1619875 - CVE-2018-14567 libxml2: Infinite loop caused by incorrect error detection during LZMA decompression

CVEs

• CVE-2015-8035
• CVE-2016-5131
• CVE-2017-15412
• CVE-2017-18258
• CVE-2018-14404
• CVE-2018-14567

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index