File expat-CVE-2022-25236.patch of Package expat.26155
From 6881a4fc8596307ab9ff2e85e605afa2e413ab71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:19:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] lib: Fix (harmless) use of uninitialized memory
---
expat/lib/xmlparse.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: expat-2.2.5/lib/xmlparse.c
===================================================================
--- expat-2.2.5.orig/lib/xmlparse.c
+++ expat-2.2.5/lib/xmlparse.c
@@ -658,8 +658,7 @@ XML_ParserCreate(const XML_Char *encodin
XML_Parser XMLCALL
XML_ParserCreateNS(const XML_Char *encodingName, XML_Char nsSep)
{
- XML_Char tmp[2];
- *tmp = nsSep;
+ XML_Char tmp[2] = {nsSep, 0};
return XML_ParserCreate_MM(encodingName, NULL, tmp);
}
@@ -1285,8 +1284,7 @@ XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate(XML_Parse
would be otherwise.
*/
if (parser->m_ns) {
- XML_Char tmp[2];
- *tmp = parser->m_namespaceSeparator;
+ XML_Char tmp[2] = {parser->m_namespaceSeparator, 0};
parser = parserCreate(encodingName, &parser->m_mem, tmp, newDtd);
}
else {
@@ -3687,6 +3685,17 @@ addBinding(XML_Parser parser, PREFIX *pr
if (!mustBeXML && isXMLNS
&& (len > xmlnsLen || uri[len] != xmlnsNamespace[len]))
isXMLNS = XML_FALSE;
+
+ // NOTE: While Expat does not validate namespace URIs against RFC 3986,
+ // we have to at least make sure that the XML processor on top of
+ // Expat (that is splitting tag names by namespace separator into
+ // 2- or 3-tuples (uri-local or uri-local-prefix)) cannot be confused
+ // by an attacker putting additional namespace separator characters
+ // into namespace declarations. That would be ambiguous and not to
+ // be expected.
+ if (parser->m_ns && (uri[len] == parser->m_namespaceSeparator)) {
+ return XML_ERROR_SYNTAX;
+ }
}
isXML = isXML && len == xmlLen;
isXMLNS = isXMLNS && len == xmlnsLen;
Index: expat-2.2.5/tests/runtests.c
===================================================================
--- expat-2.2.5.orig/tests/runtests.c
+++ expat-2.2.5/tests/runtests.c
@@ -8026,6 +8026,35 @@ START_TEST(test_ns_double_colon_doctype)
}
END_TEST
+START_TEST(test_ns_separator_in_uri) {
+ struct test_case {
+ enum XML_Status expectedStatus;
+ const char *doc;
+ };
+ struct test_case cases[] = {
+ {XML_STATUS_OK, "<doc xmlns='one_two' />"},
+ {XML_STATUS_ERROR, "<doc xmlns='one
two' />"},
+ };
+
+ size_t i = 0;
+ size_t failCount = 0;
+ for (; i < sizeof(cases) / sizeof(cases[0]); i++) {
+ XML_Parser parser = XML_ParserCreateNS(NULL, '\n');
+ XML_SetElementHandler(parser, dummy_start_element, dummy_end_element);
+ if (XML_Parse(parser, cases[i].doc, (int)strlen(cases[i].doc),
+ /*isFinal*/ XML_TRUE)
+ != cases[i].expectedStatus) {
+ failCount++;
+ }
+ XML_ParserFree(parser);
+ }
+
+ if (failCount) {
+ fail("Namespace separator handling is broken");
+ }
+}
+END_TEST
+
/* Control variable; the number of times duff_allocator() will successfully allocate */
#define ALLOC_ALWAYS_SUCCEED (-1)
#define REALLOC_ALWAYS_SUCCEED (-1)
@@ -12367,6 +12396,7 @@ make_suite(void)
tcase_add_test(tc_namespace, test_ns_utf16_doctype);
tcase_add_test(tc_namespace, test_ns_invalid_doctype);
tcase_add_test(tc_namespace, test_ns_double_colon_doctype);
+ tcase_add_test(tc_namespace, test_ns_separator_in_uri);
suite_add_tcase(s, tc_misc);
tcase_add_checked_fixture(tc_misc, NULL, basic_teardown);