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@@ -2,6 +2,101 @@ NOTE: We are looking for help with a few things: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/labels/help%20wanted If you can help, please get in touch. Thanks! +Release 2.4.6 Sun February 20 2022 + Bug fixes: + #566 Fix a regression introduced by the fix for CVE-2022-25313 + in release 2.4.5 that affects applications that (1) + call function XML_SetElementDeclHandler and (2) are + parsing XML that contains nested element declarations + (e.g. "<!ELEMENT junk ((bar|foo|xyz+), zebra*)>"). + + Other changes: + #567 #568 Version info bumped from 9:5:8 to 9:6:8; + see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do + + Special thanks to: + Matt Sergeant + Samanta Navarro + Sergei Trofimovich + and + NixOS + Perl XML::Parser + +Release 2.4.5 Fri February 18 2022 + Security fixes: + #562 CVE-2022-25235 -- Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 + sequences (e.g. from start tag names) to the XML + processing application on top of Expat can cause + arbitrary damage (e.g. code execution) depending + on how invalid UTF-8 is handled inside the XML + processor; validation was not their job but Expat's. + Exploits with code execution are known to exist. + #561 CVE-2022-25236 -- Passing (one or more) namespace separator + characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values + made Expat send malformed tag names to the XML + processor on top of Expat which can cause + arbitrary damage (e.g. code execution) depending + on such unexpectable cases are handled inside the XML + processor; validation was not their job but Expat's. + Exploits with code execution are known to exist. + #558 CVE-2022-25313 -- Fix stack exhaustion in doctype parsing + that could be triggered by e.g. a 2 megabytes + file with a large number of opening braces. + Expected impact is denial of service or potentially + arbitrary code execution. + #560 CVE-2022-25314 -- Fix integer overflow in function copyString; + only affects the encoding name parameter at parser creation + time which is often hardcoded (rather than user input), + takes a value in the gigabytes to trigger, and a 64-bit + machine. Expected impact is denial of service. + #559 CVE-2022-25315 -- Fix integer overflow in function storeRawNames; + needs input in the gigabytes and a 64-bit machine. + Expected impact is denial of service or potentially + arbitrary code execution. + + Other changes: + #557 #564 Version info bumped from 9:4:8 to 9:5:8; + see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do + + Special thanks to: + Ivan Fratric + Samanta Navarro + and + Google Project Zero + JetBrains + +Release 2.4.4 Sun January 30 2022 + Security fixes: + #550 CVE-2022-23852 -- Fix signed integer overflow + (undefined behavior) in function XML_GetBuffer + (that is also called by function XML_Parse internally) + for when XML_CONTEXT_BYTES is defined to >0 (which is both + common and default). + Impact is denial of service or more. + #551 CVE-2022-23990 -- Fix unsigned integer overflow in function + doProlog triggered by large content in element type + declarations when there is an element declaration handler + present (from a prior call to XML_SetElementDeclHandler). + Impact is denial of service or more. + + Bug fixes: + #544 #545 xmlwf: Fix a memory leak on output file opening error + + Other changes: + #546 Autotools: Fix broken CMake support under Cygwin + #554 Windows: Add missing files to the installer to fix + compilation with CMake from installed sources + #552 #554 Version info bumped from 9:3:8 to 9:4:8; + see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do + + Special thanks to: + Carlo Bramini + hwt0415 + Roland Illig + Samanta Navarro + and + Clang LeakSan and the Clang team + Release 2.4.3 Sun January 16 2022 Security fixes: #531 #534 CVE-2021-45960 -- Fix issues with left shifts by >=29 places |