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authorJack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>2019-07-10 16:23:03 -0400
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2019-07-12 00:39:01 +0200
commit5a836ce38c9c29e9c2bd306007347486b90c5064 (patch)
treeebc96aa474b77590be1871d2a75d941513c9b163
parentf85c8dd8aec96869d7b56e2e926d2e2e758da1cf (diff)
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gnu: expat: fix CVE-2018-20843
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (expat)[replacement]: New field. (expat/fixed): New variable. * gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch: New file. * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add patch file. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
-rw-r--r--gnu/local.mk1
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch21
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/xml.scm9
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index ae5477c428..67d9eb703a 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
%D%/packages/patches/evilwm-lost-focus-bug.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/exiv2-CVE-2017-14860.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/exiv2-CVE-2017-14859-14862-14864.patch \
+ %D%/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/extundelete-e2fsprogs-1.44.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/fastcap-mulGlobal.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/fastcap-mulSetup.patch \
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..216fbe9667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Fix extraction of namespace prefix from XML name.
+Fixes CVE-2018-20843
+
+This patch comes from upstream commit 11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6
+https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6
+
+CVE is https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20843
+
+diff --git a/expat/lib/xmlparse.c b/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
+index 30d55c5..737d7cd 100644
+--- a/lib/xmlparse.c
++++ b/lib/xmlparse.c
+@@ -6071,7 +6071,7 @@ setElementTypePrefix(XML_Parser parser, ELEMENT_TYPE *elementType)
+ else
+ poolDiscard(&dtd->pool);
+ elementType->prefix = prefix;
+-
++ break;
+ }
+ }
+ return 1;
diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index e3260be103..0cd9319c95 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
(define-public expat
(package
(name "expat")
+ (replacement expat/fixed)
(version "2.2.6")
(source (let ((dot->underscore (lambda (c) (if (char=? #\. c) #\_ c))))
(origin
@@ -88,6 +89,14 @@ stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for
things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags).")
(license license:expat)))
+(define expat/fixed
+ (package
+ (inherit expat)
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (inherit (package-source expat))
+ (patches (search-patches "expat-CVE-2018-20843.patch"))))))
+
(define-public libebml
(package
(name "libebml")