[libxml2] Patch for security issue CVE-2021-3541
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [libxml2] Patch for security issue CVE-2021-3541
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 12:57:54 +0000 (UTC)
commit 8598060bacada41a0eb09d95c97744ff4e428f8e
Author: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
Date: Thu May 13 14:55:12 2021 +0200
Patch for security issue CVE-2021-3541
This is relapted to parameter entities expansion and following
the line of the billion laugh attack. Somehow in that path the
counting of parameters was missed and the normal algorithm based
on entities "density" was useless.
parser.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index f5e5e169..c9312fa4 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ xmlParserEntityCheck(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, size_t size,
xmlEntityPtr ent, size_t replacement)
{
size_t consumed = 0;
+ int i;
if ((ctxt == NULL) || (ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_HUGE))
return (0);
@@ -177,6 +178,28 @@ xmlParserEntityCheck(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, size_t size,
rep = NULL;
}
}
+
+ /*
+ * Prevent entity exponential check, not just replacement while
+ * parsing the DTD
+ * The check is potentially costly so do that only once in a thousand
+ */
+ if ((ctxt->instate == XML_PARSER_DTD) && (ctxt->nbentities > 10000) &&
+ (ctxt->nbentities % 1024 == 0)) {
+ for (i = 0;i < ctxt->inputNr;i++) {
+ consumed += ctxt->inputTab[i]->consumed +
+ (ctxt->inputTab[i]->cur - ctxt->inputTab[i]->base);
+ }
+ if (ctxt->nbentities > consumed * XML_PARSER_NON_LINEAR) {
+ xmlFatalErr(ctxt, XML_ERR_ENTITY_LOOP, NULL);
+ ctxt->instate = XML_PARSER_EOF;
+ return (1);
+ }
+ consumed = 0;
+ }
+
+
+
if (replacement != 0) {
if (replacement < XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH)
return(0);
@@ -7963,6 +7986,9 @@ xmlParsePEReference(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt)
xmlChar start[4];
xmlCharEncoding enc;
+ if (xmlParserEntityCheck(ctxt, 0, entity, 0))
+ return;
+
if ((entity->etype == XML_EXTERNAL_PARAMETER_ENTITY) &&
((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_NOENT) == 0) &&
((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_DTDVALID) == 0) &&
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