MGASA-2019-0159 - Updated mxml packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 May 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0159.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-20004,
     CVE-2018-20005,
     CVE-2018-20592,
     CVE-2018-20593

Updated mxml packages fix security vulnerabilities:

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based
buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving
a double-precision floating point number and the ''
substring, as demonstrated by testmxml (CVE-2018-20004).

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a
use-after-free in mxmlWalkNext in mxml-search.c, as demonstrated by
mxmldoc (CVE-2018-20005).

In Mini-XML (aka mxml) v2.12, there is a use-after-free in the mxmlAdd
function of the mxml-node.c file. Remote attackers could leverage this
vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted xml file, as
demonstrated by mxmldoc (CVE-2018-20592).

In Mini-XML (aka mxml) v2.12, there is stack-based buffer overflow in
the scan_file function in mxmldoc.c (CVE-2018-20593).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24583
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/N53IJHDYR5HVQLKH4J6B27OEQLGKSGY5/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20004
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20005
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20592
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20593

SRPMS:
- 6/core/mxml-3.0-1.mga6