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libxml2: Backport fix for CVE introduced entity issues

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PATCH 1/1 libxml2: Backport fix for CVE introduced entity issues

The CVE fix introduced problems with entity issues, we observed this when building the Yocto Docs in particular. Backport the fix from upstream so we can build our docs correctly.

[YOCTO #7134]

meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/72a46a519ce7326d9a00f0b6a7f2a8e958cd1675.patch new file +30 -0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10a8112
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 72a46a519ce7326d9a00f0b6a7f2a8e958cd1675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
+Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:35:36 +0800
+Subject: Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix
+
+For https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738805
+
+The fix for CVE-2014-3660 introduced a regression in some case
+where entity substitution is required and the entity is used
+first in anotther entity referenced from an attribute value
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
+index 67c9dfd..a8d1b67 100644
+--- a/parser.c
++++ b/parser.c
+@@ -7235,7 +7235,8 @@ xmlParseReference(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt) {
+      * far more secure as the parser will only process data coming from
+      * the document entity by default.
+      */
+-    if ((ent->checked == 0) &&
++    if (((ent->checked == 0) ||
++         ((ent->children == NULL) && (ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_NOENT))) &&
+         ((ent->etype != XML_EXTERNAL_GENERAL_PARSED_ENTITY) ||
+          (ctxt->options & (XML_PARSE_NOENT | XML_PARSE_DTDVALID)))) {
+ 	unsigned long oldnbent = ctxt->nbentities;
+-- 
+cgit v0.10.1
+
meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.2.bb +2 -1
index f0cfa59..1affff1 100644
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require libxml2.inc
 
-SRC_URI += "http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080827.tar.gz;name=testtar"
+SRC_URI += "http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080827.tar.gz;name=testtar \
+            file://72a46a519ce7326d9a00f0b6a7f2a8e958cd1675.patch"
 
 SRC_URI[libtar.md5sum] = "9e6a9aca9d155737868b3dc5fd82f788"
 SRC_URI[libtar.sha256sum] = "5178c30b151d044aefb1b08bf54c3003a0ac55c59c866763997529d60770d5bc"
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this will be required for dizzy when I pull in the cve fix ( which i missed)..

Quoted 59 lines · Richard Purdie

The CVE fix introduced problems with entity issues, we observed this when building the Yocto Docs in particular. Backport the fix from upstream so we can build our docs correctly.

[YOCTO #7134]

meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/72a46a519ce7326d9a00f0b6a7f2a8e958cd1675.patch new file +30 -0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10a8112
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 72a46a519ce7326d9a00f0b6a7f2a8e958cd1675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
+Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:35:36 +0800
+Subject: Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix
+
+For https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738805
+
+The fix for CVE-2014-3660 introduced a regression in some case
+where entity substitution is required and the entity is used
+first in anotther entity referenced from an attribute value
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
+index 67c9dfd..a8d1b67 100644
+--- a/parser.c
++++ b/parser.c
+@@ -7235,7 +7235,8 @@ xmlParseReference(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt) {
+      * far more secure as the parser will only process data coming from
+      * the document entity by default.
+      */
+-    if ((ent->checked == 0) &&
++    if (((ent->checked == 0) ||
++         ((ent->children == NULL) && (ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_NOENT))) &&
+         ((ent->etype != XML_EXTERNAL_GENERAL_PARSED_ENTITY) ||
+          (ctxt->options & (XML_PARSE_NOENT | XML_PARSE_DTDVALID)))) {
+ 	unsigned long oldnbent = ctxt->nbentities;
+--
+cgit v0.10.1
+
meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.9.2.bb +2 -1
index f0cfa59..1affff1 100644
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
  require libxml2.inc
 
-SRC_URI += "http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080827.tar.gz;name=testtar"
+SRC_URI += "http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080827.tar.gz;name=testtar \
+            file://72a46a519ce7326d9a00f0b6a7f2a8e958cd1675.patch"
 
  SRC_URI[libtar.md5sum] = "9e6a9aca9d155737868b3dc5fd82f788"
  SRC_URI[libtar.sha256sum] = "5178c30b151d044aefb1b08bf54c3003a0ac55c59c866763997529d60770d5bc"
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Quoted 3 lines · On 15 January 2015 at 16:36, akuster808 <[email protected]> wrote:

this will be required for dizzy when I pull in the cve fix ( which i missed)..

Yes, the CVE fix was broken.

Ross