On 31.07.2015 22:50, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
> Thanks Daniel, sharing this with the dev@ list, as the problem and the
> fix are both public.
>
> Folks, what are your thoughts?  Our expat is already quite old, and
> the current release 
> was 2.10, while we were still shipping 1.95.7, before this issue
> popped up.
>
> Bumping major versions in a subversion release seems out of place. 
> Perhaps though
> we can ship this in a 1.6 if we are going to proceed.

I agree, we should bundle the latest Expat in 1.6.

>   Would we want to ship the patch,
> or would we want to ship expat project's own patches once they update?

Ideally we'd use the Expat project's patches, but it's likely that
they'll just fix 2.10 and roll a new release; that won't help us with
the code we bundle 1.4.x/1.5.x.

> In 2.0 we thankfully don't bundle expat any longer, and actually allow
> libxml2 in place 
> of expat at the user's discretion.

Whew, yes! :)

-- Brane

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *David Dillard* <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:30 AM
> Subject: Vulnerability in APR-UTIL, perhaps APR
> To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> You may already know about this, but in case you don’t, some
> vulnerabilities were published today against Google Chrome, one of
> which is in the expat XML library.  A copy of this library is included
> in the latest version of APR-UTIL (1.5.4).  Looking at the source it
> appears that this vulnerability is still present in the version of the
> code used in APR-UTIL.
>
>  
>
> Link to the CVE:
> https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-1283
>
> Link to the patch in Chrome:
> https://codereview.chromium.org/1224303003/diff/1/third_party/expat/files/lib/xmlparse.c
>
> Link to the related source in APR-UTIL:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr-util/tags/1.5.4/xml/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?revision=1625430&view=markup#l1497
>
>  
>
> This may affect APR 2.x as well, I’m not sure.
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> --- David
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