Bug#941912: libsoup2.4: CVE-2019-17266

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libsoup2.4
Version: 2.68.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/issues/173

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libsoup2.4.

CVE-2019-17266[0]:
| libsoup through 2.68.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read because
| soup_ntlm_parse_challenge() in soup-auth-ntlm.c does not properly
| check an NTLM message's length before proceeding with a memcpy.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17266
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17266
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/issues/173

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore