package/libxml2: add patch for CVE-2025-6021

This fixes an integer overflow vulnerability [1], in libxml2 version
2.13 by backporting the commit [2] from libxml2 2.14. This commit uses
the SIZE_MAX macro, for which stdint.h was included in tree.c, as done in [3].

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6021
[2] ad346c9a24
[3] https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/CVE-2025-6021.patch

Signed-off-by: Tim Soubry <tim.soubry@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
This commit is contained in:
Tim Soubry
2025-07-09 17:15:40 +02:00
committed by Julien Olivain
parent cd6f2b465b
commit a1cf6bcc06
2 changed files with 62 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
From 719cfb3f3893c7f8fada2ad71fabb68c5fe953bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 12:53:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tree: Fix integer overflow in xmlBuildQName
This issue affects memory safety and might receive a CVE ID later.
Fixes #926.
Signed-off-by: Tim Soubry <tim.soubry@mind.be>
Upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/ad346c9a249c4b380bf73c460ad3e81135c5d781
CVE: CVE-2025-6021
[tim: include needed stdint header]
---
tree.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index f097cf87..53385568 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <limits.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
#ifdef LIBXML_ZLIB_ENABLED
#include <zlib.h>
@@ -167,10 +168,10 @@ xmlGetParameterEntityFromDtd(const xmlDtd *dtd, const xmlChar *name) {
xmlChar *
xmlBuildQName(const xmlChar *ncname, const xmlChar *prefix,
xmlChar *memory, int len) {
- int lenn, lenp;
+ size_t lenn, lenp;
xmlChar *ret;
- if (ncname == NULL) return(NULL);
+ if ((ncname == NULL) || (len < 0)) return(NULL);
if (prefix == NULL) return((xmlChar *) ncname);
#ifdef FUZZING_BUILD_MODE_UNSAFE_FOR_PRODUCTION
@@ -181,9 +182,11 @@ xmlBuildQName(const xmlChar *ncname, const xmlChar *prefix,
lenn = strlen((char *) ncname);
lenp = strlen((char *) prefix);
+ if (lenn >= SIZE_MAX - lenp - 1)
+ return(NULL);
- if ((memory == NULL) || (len < lenn + lenp + 2)) {
- ret = (xmlChar *) xmlMallocAtomic(lenn + lenp + 2);
+ if ((memory == NULL) || ((size_t) len < lenn + lenp + 2)) {
+ ret = xmlMalloc(lenn + lenp + 2);
if (ret == NULL)
return(NULL);
} else {
--
2.39.5

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@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ LIBXML2_LICENSE_FILES = Copyright
LIBXML2_CPE_ID_VENDOR = xmlsoft
LIBXML2_CONFIG_SCRIPTS = xml2-config
#0001-tree-Fix-integer-overflow-in-xmlBuildQName.patch
LIBXML2_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2025-6021
# relocation truncated to fit: R_68K_GOT16O
ifeq ($(BR2_m68k_cf),y)
LIBXML2_CONF_ENV += CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) -mxgot"