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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2017-5029.patch82
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/xml.scm15
2 files changed, 96 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2017-5029.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2017-5029.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd86928b21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2017-5029.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+Fix CVE-2017-5029:
+
+https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5029
+
+Patch copied from upstream source repository:
+
+https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5
+
+From 08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>
+Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:39:52 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Check for integer overflow in xsltAddTextString
+
+Limit buffer size in xsltAddTextString to INT_MAX. The issue can be
+exploited to trigger an out of bounds write on 64-bit systems.
+
+Originally reported to Chromium:
+
+https://crbug.com/676623
+---
+ libxslt/transform.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
+ libxslt/xsltInternals.h | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/libxslt/transform.c b/libxslt/transform.c
+index 519133fc..02bff34a 100644
+--- a/libxslt/transform.c
++++ b/libxslt/transform.c
+@@ -813,13 +813,32 @@ xsltAddTextString(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, xmlNodePtr target,
+ return(target);
+
+ if (ctxt->lasttext == target->content) {
++ int minSize;
+
+- if (ctxt->lasttuse + len >= ctxt->lasttsize) {
++ /* Check for integer overflow accounting for NUL terminator. */
++ if (len >= INT_MAX - ctxt->lasttuse) {
++ xsltTransformError(ctxt, NULL, target,
++ "xsltCopyText: text allocation failed\n");
++ return(NULL);
++ }
++ minSize = ctxt->lasttuse + len + 1;
++
++ if (ctxt->lasttsize < minSize) {
+ xmlChar *newbuf;
+ int size;
++ int extra;
++
++ /* Double buffer size but increase by at least 100 bytes. */
++ extra = minSize < 100 ? 100 : minSize;
++
++ /* Check for integer overflow. */
++ if (extra > INT_MAX - ctxt->lasttsize) {
++ size = INT_MAX;
++ }
++ else {
++ size = ctxt->lasttsize + extra;
++ }
+
+- size = ctxt->lasttsize + len + 100;
+- size *= 2;
+ newbuf = (xmlChar *) xmlRealloc(target->content,size);
+ if (newbuf == NULL) {
+ xsltTransformError(ctxt, NULL, target,
+diff --git a/libxslt/xsltInternals.h b/libxslt/xsltInternals.h
+index 060b1783..5ad17719 100644
+--- a/libxslt/xsltInternals.h
++++ b/libxslt/xsltInternals.h
+@@ -1754,8 +1754,8 @@ struct _xsltTransformContext {
+ * Speed optimization when coalescing text nodes
+ */
+ const xmlChar *lasttext; /* last text node content */
+- unsigned int lasttsize; /* last text node size */
+- unsigned int lasttuse; /* last text node use */
++ int lasttsize; /* last text node size */
++ int lasttuse; /* last text node use */
+ /*
+ * Per Context Debugging
+ */
+--
+2.15.1
+
diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index 4f75de344c..344d7c347f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -188,12 +188,16 @@ project (but it is usable outside of the Gnome platform).")
(define-public libxslt
(package
(name "libxslt")
+ (replacement libxslt/fixed)
(version "1.1.29")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-"
version ".tar.gz"))
- (patches (search-patches "libxslt-CVE-2016-4738.patch"))
+ ;; XXX Oops, the patches field is redefined below, which means the
+ ;; patch for CVE-2016-4738 was not used. Fixed in the definition of
+ ;; libxslt/fixed below.
+ ;(patches (search-patches "libxslt-CVE-2016-4738.patch"))
(sha256
(base32
"1klh81xbm9ppzgqk339097i39b7fnpmlj8lzn8bpczl3aww6x5xm"))
@@ -210,6 +214,15 @@ project (but it is usable outside of the Gnome platform).")
based on libxml for XML parsing, tree manipulation and XPath support.")
(license license:x11)))
+(define libxslt/fixed
+ (package
+ (inherit libxslt)
+ (source (origin
+ (inherit (package-source libxslt))
+ (patches (search-patches "libxslt-CVE-2016-4738.patch"
+ "libxslt-CVE-2017-5029.patch"
+ "libxslt-generated-ids.patch"))))))
+
(define-public perl-graph-readwrite
(package
(name "perl-graph-readwrite")