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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:45:48 +0100
From: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: libxml2 heap contents leak

hi,

Btw, I re opened the php one as Daniel seems to think that it is the
application responsibility and not libxml. I'm not totally convinced
and I asked Rob to check this problem again.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Kees Cook <kees@...ntu.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to get a CVE assigned for a minor heap contents leak in
> libxml2. I reported that it is possible to leak heap memory contents
> from libxml2 (and things linked against it, for example PHP[1], or things
> written in PHP[2]):
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631551
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Kees
>
> [1] http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52998
> [2] http://status.net/open-source/issues/2798
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Ubuntu Security Team
>



-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org

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