Bug 1212007

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-34411: ncspot: xml-rs: denial of service via an invalid <! token (such as <!DOCTYPEs/%<!A nesting) in an XML document.
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Thomas Leroy <thomas.leroy>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Martin Hauke <mardnh>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/368371/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	1211996

Description Thomas Leroy 2023-06-05 09:39:34 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1211996 +++

CVE-2023-34411

The xml-rs crate before 0.8.14 for Rust and Crab allows a denial of service
(panic) via an invalid <! token (such as <!DOCTYPEs/%<!A nesting) in an XML
document.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-34411
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34411
https://github.com/00xc/xml-rs/commit/0f084d45aa53e4a27476961785f59f2bd7d59a9f
https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/commit/c09549a187e62d39d40467f129e64abf32efc35c
https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/compare/0.8.13...0.8.14
https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/pull/226

Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2023-06-05 09:40:14 UTC

openSUSE:Factory/ncspot embeds a vulnerable version of xml-rs crate.

Comment 2 Thomas Leroy 2023-06-14 08:07:27 UTC

Issue was added in 0.8.9. This is actually not affected.