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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:13:50 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: carnil@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: libxml2 issue: out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML comment

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>> https://hackerone.com/reports/57125#activity-384861

>> This is an out-of-bounds memory access in libxml2. By entering a unclosed
>> html comment such as <!-- the libxml2 parser didn't stop parsing at the end
>> of the buffer, causing random memory to be included in the parsed comment
>> that was returned to ruby. In Shopify, this caused ruby objects from
>> previous http requests to be disclosed in the rendered page.

>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746048

>>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e724879d964d774df9b7969fc846605aa1bac54c

Use CVE-2015-8710 for this 746048 issue.


> TTBOMK, this and as well
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/19/5 has a pending
> CVE assignment request.

We don't think that one is pending. It was about 744980, covered in the
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/8 post.

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