Upstream commit: This is related to parameter entities expansion and following the line of the billion laugh attack. Somehow in that path the counting of parameters was missed and the normal algorithm based on entities "density" was useless.
CVE: CVE-2021-3541 Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/8598060bacada41a0eb09d95c97744ff4e428f8e] Signed-off-by: Tony Tascioglu <tony.tascio...@windriver.com> --- .../libxml/libxml2/CVE-2021-3541.patch | 73 +++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.10.bb | 1 + 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2021-3541.patch diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2021-3541.patch b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2021-3541.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3b86278ac4 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2021-3541.patch @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +From 8598060bacada41a0eb09d95c97744ff4e428f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Daniel Veillard <veill...@redhat.com> +Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 14:55:12 +0200 +Subject: [PATCH] Patch for security issue CVE-2021-3541 + +This is relapted to parameter entities expansion and following +the line of the billion laugh attack. Somehow in that path the +counting of parameters was missed and the normal algorithm based +on entities "density" was useless. + +CVE: CVE-2021-3541 +Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/8598060bacada41a0eb09d95c97744ff4e428f8e] + +Signed-off-by: Tony Tascioglu <tony.tascio...@windriver.com> + +--- + parser.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) + +diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c +index f5e5e169..c9312fa4 100644 +--- a/parser.c ++++ b/parser.c +@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ xmlParserEntityCheck(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, size_t size, + xmlEntityPtr ent, size_t replacement) + { + size_t consumed = 0; ++ int i; + + if ((ctxt == NULL) || (ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_HUGE)) + return (0); +@@ -177,6 +178,28 @@ xmlParserEntityCheck(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, size_t size, + rep = NULL; + } + } ++ ++ /* ++ * Prevent entity exponential check, not just replacement while ++ * parsing the DTD ++ * The check is potentially costly so do that only once in a thousand ++ */ ++ if ((ctxt->instate == XML_PARSER_DTD) && (ctxt->nbentities > 10000) && ++ (ctxt->nbentities % 1024 == 0)) { ++ for (i = 0;i < ctxt->inputNr;i++) { ++ consumed += ctxt->inputTab[i]->consumed + ++ (ctxt->inputTab[i]->cur - ctxt->inputTab[i]->base); ++ } ++ if (ctxt->nbentities > consumed * XML_PARSER_NON_LINEAR) { ++ xmlFatalErr(ctxt, XML_ERR_ENTITY_LOOP, NULL); ++ ctxt->instate = XML_PARSER_EOF; ++ return (1); ++ } ++ consumed = 0; ++ } ++ ++ ++ + if (replacement != 0) { + if (replacement < XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) + return(0); +@@ -7963,6 +7986,9 @@ xmlParsePEReference(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt) + xmlChar start[4]; + xmlCharEncoding enc; + ++ if (xmlParserEntityCheck(ctxt, 0, entity, 0)) ++ return; ++ + if ((entity->etype == XML_EXTERNAL_PARAMETER_ENTITY) && + ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_NOENT) == 0) && + ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_DTDVALID) == 0) && +-- +2.25.1 + diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.10.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.10.bb index a9bff74b55..ce4f9a3340 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.10.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.10.bb @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-${PV}.tar.gz;name=libtar \ file://CVE-2021-3518-0001.patch \ file://CVE-2021-3518-0002.patch \ file://CVE-2021-3537.patch \ + file://CVE-2021-3541.patch \ " SRC_URI[libtar.md5sum] = "10942a1dc23137a8aa07f0639cbfece5" -- 2.29.2
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