Follow-up upstream fix for CVE-2015-1283 to not rely on undefined behavior. Adapted from a patch from Debian (found in Debian package version 2.1.0-6+deb8u2) to apply to upstream code: https://sources.debian.net/src/expat/2.1.0-6%2Bdeb8u2/debian/patches/CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch/ --- lib/xmlparse.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/xmlparse.c b/lib/xmlparse.c index 0f6f4cd..5c70c17 100644 --- a/lib/xmlparse.c +++ b/lib/xmlparse.c @@ -1727,7 +1727,8 @@ XML_GetBuffer(XML_Parser parser, int len) } if (len > bufferLim - bufferEnd) { - int neededSize = len + (int)(bufferEnd - bufferPtr); + /* Do not invoke signed arithmetic overflow: */ + int neededSize = (int) ((unsigned)len + (unsigned)(bufferEnd - bufferPtr)); if (neededSize < 0) { errorCode = XML_ERROR_NO_MEMORY; return NULL; @@ -1759,7 +1760,8 @@ XML_GetBuffer(XML_Parser parser, int len) if (bufferSize == 0) bufferSize = INIT_BUFFER_SIZE; do { - bufferSize *= 2; + /* Do not invoke signed arithmetic overflow: */ + bufferSize = (int) (2U * (unsigned) bufferSize); } while (bufferSize < neededSize && bufferSize > 0); if (bufferSize <= 0) { errorCode = XML_ERROR_NO_MEMORY; -- 2.8.3