FEDORA-2017-3849af4477 — security update for libplist

stable

libplist-2.0.0-1.fc24

FEDORA-2017-3849af4477 created by pbrobinson 7 years ago for Fedora 24

Version 2.0.0

Changes:

New light-weight custom XML parser
Remove libxml2 dependency
Refactor binary plist parsing
Improved malformed XML and binary plist detection and error handling
Add parser debug/error output (when compiled with --enable-debug), controlled via environment variables
Fix unicode character handling
Add PLIST_IS_* helper macros for the different node types
Extend date/time range and date conversion issues
Add plist_is_binary() and plist_from_memory() functions to the interface
Plug several memory leaks
Speed improvements for handling large plist files

Includes security fixes for:

CVE-2017-6440
CVE-2017-6439
CVE-2017-6438
CVE-2017-6437
CVE-2017-6436
CVE-2017-6435
CVE-2017-5836
CVE-2017-5835
CVE-2017-5834
CVE-2017-5545
CVE-2017-5209

... and several others that didn't receive any CVE (yet).

How to install

Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2017-3849af4477

This update has been submitted for testing by pbrobinson.

7 years ago

This update has been pushed to testing.

7 years ago

filiperosset commented & provided feedback 7 years ago

karma

no regressions noted

pwhalen commented & provided feedback 7 years ago

karma

Looks good.

This update has been submitted for stable by pbrobinson.

7 years ago

This update has been pushed to stable.

7 years ago

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Metadata

Type

security

Karma

Signed

Content Type

RPM

Test Gating

None

Builds

libplist-2.0.0-1.fc24

Settings

Unstable by Karma

-3

Stable by Karma

disabled

Stable by Time

disabled

Dates

submitted

7 years ago

in testing

7 years ago

in stable

7 years ago

BZ#1412613 CVE-2017-5209 libplist: base64decode buffer over-read via split encoded Apple Property List data

BZ#1412614 CVE-2017-5209 libplist: base64decode buffer over-read via split encoded Apple Property List data [fedora-all]

BZ#1416008 CVE-2017-5545 libplist: Heap-buffer overflow in plistutil [fedora-all]

BZ#1418597 CVE-2017-5834 CVE-2017-5835 CVE-2017-5836 libplist: various flaws [fedora-all]

BZ#1432951 CVE-2017-6436 libplist: Integer overflow in parse_string_node

BZ#1432954 CVE-2017-6437 libplist: Out-of-bounds heap read in base64encode function

BZ#1432956 CVE-2017-6438 libplist: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_unicode_node

BZ#1432959 CVE-2017-6439 libplist: Heap-based buffer overflow in parse_string_node

BZ#1432965 CVE-2017-6440 libplist: Memory allocation error in parse_data_node

BZ#1432971 CVE-2017-6435 CVE-2017-6436 CVE-2017-6437 CVE-2017-6438 CVE-2017-6439 CVE-2017-6440 CVE-2017-7982 libplist: various flaws [fedora-all]

libplist-2.0.0-1.fc24

Automated Test Results

None