Patch origin: upstream
Patch status: will be part of next version

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=213f1fe0d76d30eaed6e5853057defc43e6df2c9

From 213f1fe0d76d30eaed6e5853057defc43e6df2c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:41:48 +0800
Subject: CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory

One of the operation on the reader could resolve entities
leading to the classic expansion issue. Make sure the
buffer used for xmlreader operation is bounded.
Introduce a new allocation type for the buffers for this effect.

diff --git a/buf.c b/buf.c
index 6efc7b6..07922ff 100644
--- a/buf.c
+++ b/buf.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <libxml/tree.h>
 #include <libxml/globals.h>
 #include <libxml/tree.h>
+#include <libxml/parserInternals.h> /* for XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH */
 #include "buf.h"
 
 #define WITH_BUFFER_COMPAT
@@ -299,7 +300,8 @@ xmlBufSetAllocationScheme(xmlBufPtr buf,
     if ((scheme == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_DOUBLEIT) ||
         (scheme == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_EXACT) ||
         (scheme == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_HYBRID) ||
-        (scheme == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_IMMUTABLE)) {
+        (scheme == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_IMMUTABLE) ||
+	(scheme == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED)) {
 	buf->alloc = scheme;
         if (buf->buffer)
             buf->buffer->alloc = scheme;
@@ -458,6 +460,18 @@ xmlBufGrowInternal(xmlBufPtr buf, size_t len) {
     size = buf->use + len + 100;
 #endif
 
+    if (buf->alloc == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED) {
+        /*
+	 * Used to provide parsing limits
+	 */
+        if ((buf->use + len >= XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) ||
+	    (buf->size >= XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH)) {
+	    xmlBufMemoryError(buf, "buffer error: text too long\n");
+	    return(0);
+	}
+	if (size >= XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH)
+	    size = XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH;
+    }
     if ((buf->alloc == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_IO) && (buf->contentIO != NULL)) {
         size_t start_buf = buf->content - buf->contentIO;
 
@@ -739,6 +753,15 @@ xmlBufResize(xmlBufPtr buf, size_t size)
     CHECK_COMPAT(buf)
 
     if (buf->alloc == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_IMMUTABLE) return(0);
+    if (buf->alloc == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED) {
+        /*
+	 * Used to provide parsing limits
+	 */
+        if (size >= XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) {
+	    xmlBufMemoryError(buf, "buffer error: text too long\n");
+	    return(0);
+	}
+    }
 
     /* Don't resize if we don't have to */
     if (size < buf->size)
@@ -867,6 +890,15 @@ xmlBufAdd(xmlBufPtr buf, const xmlChar *str, int len) {
 
     needSize = buf->use + len + 2;
     if (needSize > buf->size){
+	if (buf->alloc == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED) {
+	    /*
+	     * Used to provide parsing limits
+	     */
+	    if (needSize >= XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) {
+		xmlBufMemoryError(buf, "buffer error: text too long\n");
+		return(-1);
+	    }
+	}
         if (!xmlBufResize(buf, needSize)){
 	    xmlBufMemoryError(buf, "growing buffer");
             return XML_ERR_NO_MEMORY;
@@ -938,6 +970,15 @@ xmlBufAddHead(xmlBufPtr buf, const xmlChar *str, int len) {
     }
     needSize = buf->use + len + 2;
     if (needSize > buf->size){
+	if (buf->alloc == XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED) {
+	    /*
+	     * Used to provide parsing limits
+	     */
+	    if (needSize >= XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) {
+		xmlBufMemoryError(buf, "buffer error: text too long\n");
+		return(-1);
+	    }
+	}
         if (!xmlBufResize(buf, needSize)){
 	    xmlBufMemoryError(buf, "growing buffer");
             return XML_ERR_NO_MEMORY;
diff --git a/include/libxml/tree.h b/include/libxml/tree.h
index 2f90717..4a9b3bc 100644
--- a/include/libxml/tree.h
+++ b/include/libxml/tree.h
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ typedef enum {
     XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_EXACT,	/* grow only to the minimal size */
     XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_IMMUTABLE, /* immutable buffer */
     XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_IO,	/* special allocation scheme used for I/O */
-    XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_HYBRID	/* exact up to a threshold, and doubleit thereafter */
+    XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_HYBRID,	/* exact up to a threshold, and doubleit thereafter */
+    XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED	/* limit the upper size of the buffer */
 } xmlBufferAllocationScheme;
 
 /**
diff --git a/xmlreader.c b/xmlreader.c
index f19e123..471e7e2 100644
--- a/xmlreader.c
+++ b/xmlreader.c
@@ -2091,6 +2091,9 @@ xmlNewTextReader(xmlParserInputBufferPtr input, const char *URI) {
 		"xmlNewTextReader : malloc failed\n");
 	return(NULL);
     }
+    /* no operation on a reader should require a huge buffer */
+    xmlBufSetAllocationScheme(ret->buffer,
+			      XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED);
     ret->sax = (xmlSAXHandler *) xmlMalloc(sizeof(xmlSAXHandler));
     if (ret->sax == NULL) {
 	xmlBufFree(ret->buffer);
@@ -3616,6 +3619,7 @@ xmlTextReaderConstValue(xmlTextReaderPtr reader) {
 	    return(((xmlNsPtr) node)->href);
         case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:{
 	    xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) node;
+	    const xmlChar *ret;
 
 	    if ((attr->children != NULL) &&
 	        (attr->children->type == XML_TEXT_NODE) &&
@@ -3629,10 +3633,21 @@ xmlTextReaderConstValue(xmlTextReaderPtr reader) {
                                         "xmlTextReaderSetup : malloc failed\n");
                         return (NULL);
                     }
+		    xmlBufSetAllocationScheme(reader->buffer,
+		                              XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED);
                 } else
                     xmlBufEmpty(reader->buffer);
 	        xmlBufGetNodeContent(reader->buffer, node);
-		return(xmlBufContent(reader->buffer));
+		ret = xmlBufContent(reader->buffer);
+		if (ret == NULL) {
+		    /* error on the buffer best to reallocate */
+		    xmlBufFree(reader->buffer);
+		    reader->buffer = xmlBufCreateSize(100);
+		    xmlBufSetAllocationScheme(reader->buffer,
+		                              XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED);
+		    ret = BAD_CAST "";
+		}
+		return(ret);
 	    }
 	    break;
 	}
@@ -5131,6 +5146,9 @@ xmlTextReaderSetup(xmlTextReaderPtr reader,
                         "xmlTextReaderSetup : malloc failed\n");
         return (-1);
     }
+    /* no operation on a reader should require a huge buffer */
+    xmlBufSetAllocationScheme(reader->buffer,
+			      XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_BOUNDED);
     if (reader->sax == NULL)
 	reader->sax = (xmlSAXHandler *) xmlMalloc(sizeof(xmlSAXHandler));
     if (reader->sax == NULL) {
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