xmlrpc-c/0007-Address-segfault-found-in-CVE-2023-52425.patch
Rob Crittenden 0e89150eee expat: Address segementation fault in CVE-2023-52425
CVE-2023-52425 is a DoS where extremely large tags can cause
significant processing delays. It isn't reasonably possible to
backport the fix but while testing the impact it was determined
that a large ctags could cause a segmentation fault. That is what
is addressed.

Resolves: RHEL-24226
2024-04-25 10:47:50 -04:00

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From 66e6f8700959f7a54056ed7946c179d808e838e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:26:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Address segfault found in CVE-2023-52425
The CVE addresses a possible DoS when unreasonably large tokens
are passed into the XML parser for processing. These were taking
upwards of 8 seconds per file processed with the exception of
aaaaaa_cdata.xml which caused a segmentation fault. The XML
processor was effectively losing the start of the string, setting
it to NULL. This caused a cascade of errors trying to parse both
the next token and in handling errors if a new token was not found.
This handles both those cases but not the underlying reason why
the pointer to inputStart is lost.
Trying to backport the libexpat changes to address the performance
issue would be enormous since the xmlrpc-c custom version of libexpat
is extremely old. Since xmlrpc-c is mostly used as a client passing
in random values is less of an issue.
Include the libexpat upstream benchmark test to validate that the
tests pass, albeit slowly.
To run the benchmarks:
extract the sources
cd xmlrpc-c-1.51.0
make
cd test
make
cd benchmark
for file in *.xml; do ./benchmark $file 4096 1; done
One test will error out but this is expected as part of the fix.
The tests will be extracted as a Source because of their
uncompressed size (~48M)
Fixes: RHEL-24226
---
lib/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c | 3 +++
lib/expat/xmltok/xmltok_impl.c | 4 ++++
test/Makefile | 7 +++++--
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c b/lib/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c
index 16ab82a..6621d18 100644
--- a/lib/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c
+++ b/lib/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ extractXmlSample(const char * const start,
size_t const maximumLen) {
size_t const len = MIN(maximumLen, (size_t)(end - start));
+ if (start == NULL) {
+ return strdup("");
+ }
return xmlrpc_makePrintable_lp(start, len);
}
diff --git a/lib/expat/xmltok/xmltok_impl.c b/lib/expat/xmltok/xmltok_impl.c
index bae79b9..80da94f 100644
--- a/lib/expat/xmltok/xmltok_impl.c
+++ b/lib/expat/xmltok/xmltok_impl.c
@@ -871,6 +871,10 @@ PREFIX(contentTok)(const ENCODING * const enc,
*/
PREFIX(chopToWholeCharacters)(inputStart, inputEnd, &end);
+ if (inputStart == NULL) {
+ *nextTokPtr = NULL;
+ return XML_TOK_INVALID;
+ }
if (end == inputStart) {
*nextTokPtr = inputStart;
return XML_TOK_PARTIAL;
diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index 4fce824..1242910 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SUBDIR := test
include $(BLDDIR)/config.mk
-SUBDIRS = cpp
+SUBDIRS = cpp benchmark
XMLRPC_C_CONFIG = $(BLDDIR)/xmlrpc-c-config.test
@@ -98,11 +98,14 @@ runtests_local: test cgitest1
./test
.PHONY: runtests
-runtests: runtests_local cpp/runtests
+runtests: runtests_local cpp/runtests benchmark/runtests
cpp/runtests: FORCE
$(MAKE) -C $(dir $@) $(notdir $@)
+benchmark/runtests:
+ $(MAKE) -C $(dir $@) $(notdir $@)
+
.PHONY: install
install:
--
2.42.0