From: Daniel Veillard Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:30:56 +0800 Subject: Do not fetch external parameter entities Unless explicitely asked for when validating or replacing entities with their value. Problem pointed out by Daniel Berrange Upstream-Status: Backport Reference: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0191 Signed-off-by: Daniel Veillard Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John --- diff -Naur libxml2-2.9.1-orig/parser.c libxml2-2.9.1/parser.c --- libxml2-2.9.1-orig/parser.c 2013-04-16 15:39:18.000000000 +0200 +++ libxml2-2.9.1/parser.c 2014-05-07 13:35:46.883687946 +0200 @@ -2595,6 +2595,20 @@ xmlCharEncoding enc; /* + * Note: external parsed entities will not be loaded, it is + * not required for a non-validating parser, unless the + * option of validating, or substituting entities were + * given. Doing so is far more secure as the parser will + * only process data coming from the document entity by + * default. + */ + if ((entity->etype == XML_EXTERNAL_PARAMETER_ENTITY) && + ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_NOENT) == 0) && + ((ctxt->options & XML_PARSE_DTDVALID) == 0) && + (ctxt->validate == 0)) + return; + + /* * handle the extra spaces added before and after * c.f. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#as-PE * this is done independently.